Art in your inbox: May 2024

The Roof Garden Artist Interview, Museum News, Podcasts, and More [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Artist Interview—Petrit Halilaj: The Roof Garden Commission, Abetare]( [Artist Interview—Petrit Halilaj: The Roof Garden Commission, Abetare]( Go behind the scenes with artist Petrit Halilaj, who discusses with curator Iria Candela the inspiration and making of his 2024 Roof Garden Commission: Abetare. [Watch now →]( [An Exciting Milestone for the Redesign of The Met's Galleries for Modern and Contemporary Art]( [An Exciting Milestone for the Redesign of The Met's Galleries for Modern and Contemporary Art]( Director and CEO Max Hollein celebrates an important moment as the Museum moves forward with renovation plans for the new Oscar L. and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing with architect Frida Escobedo, the first woman to design a wing in the Museum's 154-year history. [Read now →]( [The Free Black Women's Library | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025]( [The Free Black Women's Library | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025]( “Part of what inspired the project was wanting to create something that really centered the brilliance and creativity of Black women writers and the transformative possibilities that come with reading.” [Watch now →]( [Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 3, Art & Literature]( [Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 3, Art & Literature]( How did the literature of the Harlem Renaissance play a central role in conversations around Black identity? Hear from professor Monica L. Miller and writer John Keene on some of the era's leading literary luminaries. [Listen now →]( [What's On]( [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion]( [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion]( JUST OPENED Through September 2, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare]( [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare]( JUST OPENED Through October 27, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back]( [The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back]( CLOSING SOON Through May 28, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery]( [Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery]( Through June 4, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting]( [Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting]( Through June 16, 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 [Plan Your Visit]( See the [Plan Your Visit page]( for more information about buying tickets in advance. 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[Harlem is Everywhere]( is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. 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: Aaron Douglas (American, 1899–1979). Miss Zora Neale Hurston, 1926. Pastel on canvas. Fisk University Galleries, Nashville | 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 | Petrit Halilaj, Abetare (detail), 2024, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | Nairy Baghramian. Photo by Abigail Enzaldo. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, and Kurimanzutto | Selections from the School for Advanced Research and Vilcek Foundation | Hua Guan (active late 18th to early 19th century). Portrait of a gentleman gathering chrysanthemums (detail), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1790. Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper. Purchase, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Bequest, 2023 (2023.299). | 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)