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Poetry, New Exhibitions for May, Podcasts, Talks, and more! [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Exhibition Tour—The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism]( [Romare Bearden's The Block (1971)]( The poet Major Jackson responds to Bearden's famous mural-size collage with an original poem that captures the density, complexity, and vivacity of life on a single block in Harlem. [Explore now →]( [Podcast | Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 1]( [Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 2, Portraiture & Fashion]( What role did fashion play in the Harlem Renaissance? Hear from Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Robin Givhan and scholar Bridget R. Cooks as they consider what it meant to create a new image of Black life in America and abroad. [Listen now →]( [The Art of Love in the Ketubah]( [Drawing Connoisseurship from the Art Market to the British Museum: Mistakes, Fakes, and Second Takes]( Learn how connoisseurship has become a more collaborative exercise and how close looking can still yield surprising discoveries. [Watch now →]( ["Birches" by Robert Frost: An Optical Poem, 2024 | From the Vaults]( [By Women, for Women: American Art Posters of the 1890s]( How did women emerge as active creators of art and visual culture in the nineteenth century? Learn more about the gendered history of illustration in the United States. [Watch now →]( [Alsarah & the Nubatones: Nuba Noutou]( [Ottoman Wedding Dresses, East to West]( Often saved and passed down from generation to generation, wedding dresses are a key means of understanding fashion traditions in different cultures across time and geographies. [Learn more →]( [What's On]( [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion]( [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion]( UPCOMING May 10–September 2, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare]( [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare]( OPENING SOON April 30–October 27, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting]( [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting]( Through June 9, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection]( [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection]( Through June 11, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance]( [Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance]( Through July 7, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism]( [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism]( Through July 28, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography]( [The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography]( Through August 4, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Lineages: Korean Art at The Met]( [Lineages: Korean Art at The Met]( Through October 20, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Cycladic Art]( [Cycladic Art]( Ongoing The Met Fifth Avenue [Plan Your Visit]( See the [Plan Your Visit page]( for more information about buying tickets in advance. Please note our [current opening days and hours for each location](. See our [visitor guidelines]( for the latest health and safety updates. [Buy your tickets now →]( [Become a Member →]( [The Met Fifth Avenue]( 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028 [The Met Cloisters]( 99 Margaret Corbin Drive Fort Tryon Park New York, NY 10040 [metmuseum.org]( [Explore]( [Membership]( [Donate]( [Shop]( [Manage Your Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe]( For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism](, [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion](, [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare](, [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting](, [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection](, [Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance](, [The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography](, [Lineages: Korean Art at The Met](, and [Cycladic Art](. [Harlem is Everywhere]( is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. [Drawing Connoisseurship from the Art Market to the British Museum: Mistakes, Fakes, and Second Takes]( is made possible by the Michael A. and Juliet van Vliet Rubenstein Fund. Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. [Donate now.]( Comments are welcome at [metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org](mailto:MetMuseum_Newsletter@metmuseum.org). Images: Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988). [The Block]( (detail), 1971. Cut and pasted printed, colored and metallic papers, photostats, graphite, ink marker, gouache, watercolor, and ink on Masonite, 48 in. x 18 ft. (121.9 x 548.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shore, 1978 (1978.61.1-.6) Art © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY | James Van Der Zee (American, 1886–1983). [Couple, Harlem](, 1932, printed later. Gelatin silver print, 8 in. x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Donna Van Der Zee, 2021 (2021.446.1.2) © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Ethel Reed (American, 1874–1912). [The Penny Magazine](, ca. 1896. Lithograph, 21 9⁄16 x 10 1⁄4 in. (54.7 x 26 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 1999 (1999.402) | Jun Takahashi (Japanese, born 1969) for Undercover (Japanese, founded 1990). Dress, spring/summer 2024. Reinforced 3-D-printed clear resin containing purple silk plain-weave roses, green silk velvet leaves, and yellow and purple silk plain-weave butterflies overlaid with yellow nylon tulle and trimmed with yellow embossed leather. Courtesy Undercover. Photography © Nick Knight, 2024 | An Elephant and Keeper, India, Mughal, ca. 1650-60. Opaque color and gold on paper. Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022 (2022.187) | Edward Penfield (American, 1866–1925). Harper’s: February, 1897. Lithograph. 19 × 14 in. (48.3 × 35.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 1984 (1984.1202.96). | Left: Lorenzo Lotto. Portrait of a Woman (detail), ca. 1505. Oil on wood panel. Musée des Beaux- Arts, Dijon. Right: Lorenzo Lotto. Portrait Cover with on Allegory (detail), ca. 1505. Oil on wood panel. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Samuel H. Kress Collection (1939.1.147) | William H. Johnson (American, 1901–1970). Woman in Blue, c. 1943. Oil on burlap, 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm). Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Permanent Loan from the National Collection of Fine Art, 1969.013 | Murray Duitz (American, 1917–2010). A.S. Beck “Executive” Shoe, 1957. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 8 in. (27.94 x 20.32 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of the artist, 1975 (1975.601.2.1) | Kwon Young-woo (1926–2013). Untitled, 1984. Ink and gouache on hanji (Korean paper), 88 3/16 x 66 15/16 in. (224 x 170 cm). Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul. © Kwon Young-woo Estate. Image courtesy of Leeum Museum of Art. | Female figure, Cycladic, Early Cycladic II, ca. 2500–2400/2300 BCE. Marble. Leonard N. Stern Collection, Loan from the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture