The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Meet Linsen Chai, the exhibition designer behind "Man Ray: When Objects Dream." When entering an exhibition, our attention is often drawn first to the artworks themselves. We rarely notice that the paths we walk on, the spots where we pause, the transitions between spaces, and even the color and material of the floor are all the result of meticulous design. This experience is made possible by the exhibition design team working behind the scenes. 🖼️ See "Man Ray: When Objects Dream" through February 1.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to experience The Met after dark? During The Met After Hours, Members at the Dual level and above enjoy special access to select areas of the Museum with gallery chats, small bites, and drinks, all while The Met is closed to the public. 🎟️ Don’t miss the next After Hours on February 12! Join or renew your Membership → met.org/4pKHwTb

📣 Announcing the MetLiveArts Spring 2026 season! MetLiveArts brings The Met collection to life through bold, boundary-pushing performances that forge unexpected connections across genres and mediums. This spring… 🎻 Hear musical instruments from The Met collection 💃 Celebrate the newly reimagined Africa and Oceania galleries with music, dance, and storytelling 🎨 Experience performance in dialogue with newly reinstalled European paintings and favorite works from the American Wing …and much more. Explore this season’s line-up → met.org/4pQjDJN #MetLiveArts

Meet Linsen Chai, the exhibition designer behind "Man Ray: When Objects Dream." When entering an exhibition, our attention is often drawn first to the artworks themselves. We rarely notice that the paths we walk on, the spots where we pause, the transitions between spaces, and even the color and material of the floor are all the result of meticulous design. This experience is made possible by the exhibition design team working behind the scenes. 🖼️ See "Man Ray: When Objects Dream" through February 1.

For over six decades, artist John Wilson (1922–2015) created powerful, poetic works rooted in his lifelong pursuit of racial, social, and economic justice. Join a panel of experts to celebrate Wilson as a global visionary and dive into the themes of our exhibition "Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson." 🗓️ February 3 🕰️ 6 p.m. 🎟️ Get tickets → met.org/3YHcP6i ——— John Wilson (American, 1922–2015), "Boulevard de Strasbourg," 1950. Color lithograph.

📣 One week away! Join Emmy Award–winning journalist Alina Cho in conversation with Erdem Moralioglu, Founder and Creative Director of ERDEM, as they celebrate the fashion house’s 20th anniversary and delve into its creative evolution, signature craftsmanship, and the realities of building an independent fashion brand. 🗓️ January 27 🕰️ 6–7 p.m. 🎟️ Get tickets → met.org/497fImS

Lee Miller didn’t just work with Man Ray—she helped shape modern photography, even as women artists were routinely denied credit. When she arrived in Paris in 1929, Miller committed fully to photography. Within months, she was co-creating radical work with Man Ray, including the rediscovery of solarization, a technique that became central to Surrealist photography. While Man Ray received most of the public recognition, he privately acknowledged Miller’s role. Behind the scenes, she even took on much of his photography work, published under his name so they could continue to earn—an arrangement shaped by the limited opportunities available to women artists at the time. 🖼️ See "Man Ray: When Objects Dream" through February 1. 📖 Read more about the decades-long creative partnership and enduring affection between Man Ray and Lee Miller → met.org/49qc33D ——— Man Ray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890–1976 Paris), "Lee Miller," 1929. Gelatin silver print. © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025

Join world-renowned artist Kerry James Marshall for a discussion on close looking as a source of inspiration! Best known for his large-scale paintings, Marshall uses close looking to critically engage art history and to reassert the Black figure within the canon of Western painting. Learn directly from the artist as he examines objects from The Met collection and speaks about intention, process, and composition building in The Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Lecture on Connoisseurship—'Candy Coated Popcorn...' with Kerry James Marshall. 🗓️ January 30 🕰️ 6 p.m. 🎟️ Get tickets → met.org/4aWfNes ——— Kerry James Marshall (American, born Birmingham, Alabama, 1955), "Untitled (Studio)," 2014. Acrylic on PVC panels. © Kerry James Marshall.

How do you preserve 11,252 drawings that were created over 125 years ago? Read more from The New York Times on how Met scientists analyzed these works and how our exhibition "The Brooklyn Bridge Up Close" came to be → met.org/4q0tRaN

Wilson’s drawing of a Black steel worker was featured on the cover of the July 23, 1959, issue of The Reporter. Composed and resolute, the figure radiates dignity and strength, appearing almost sculptural against a backdrop of bold, heavy-outlined geometric forms. Near the center of the composition are his massive hands, firmly grasping a steel rod. Inside the issue, Paul Jacobs’s essay, “The Negro Worker Asserts His Rights,” was accompanied by six illustrations by Wilson, among his most searing indictments of the discrimination faced by Black workers. 🖼️ See "Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson"—the largest exhibition of works dedicated to this extraordinary American artist on view at The Met through February 8. 🎟️ Join us on February 3 at 6 p.m. for a panel discussion to celebrate the artist and explore the themes of the exhibition → met.org/3YHcP6i ——— 🎨 John Wilson (American, 1922–2015), "Steel Worker," 1959. Pastel and gouache on paper. Image courtesy Princeton University Art Museum / Art Resource, NY.