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For the weekend: An Exhibition Tour, Art Explained, New Podcasts. [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion—Exhibition Tour with Andrew Bolton]( [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion—Exhibition Tour with Andrew Bolton]( Join Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, on a tour of [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion](. Learn how the exhibition reactivates the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum's collection through first-hand research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies. [Watch now →]( [Art Explained: The Disrobing of Draupadi]( [Art Explained: The Disrobing of Draupadi]( This extraordinary painting attributed to the Indian painter Nainsukh depicts a key scene from the Mahabharata. Recent technical examination—in preparation for the work's inclusion in the exhibition [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting](—uncovers the artist's creative process. [Explore now →]( [Visualizing the Afterlife ]( [Visualizing the Afterlife]( Explore how artists across time and place have contemplated the afterlife. [Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt]( is on view now at The Met Fifth Avenue. [Learn more →]( [Sam iz Dat ]( [Sam iz Dat]( Take a look at independent art publishing projects by Chinese-speaking creators—including artists' books, zines, comics, and photobooks—in this dispatch from Watson Library.[Read now →]( [Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 4, Music & Nightlife]( [Harlem Is Everywhere]([: Episode 4, Music & Nightlife]( What were the sounds of the Harlem Renaissance? In this episode, we'll learn how music and dancing were part of a larger boundary-breaking nightlife that involved gambling, speakeasies, and hole-in-the-wall clubs where people could express gender and sexuality in new ways. [Listen now →]( [What's On]( [Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.]( [Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.]( OPENING SOON June 9–October 20, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Human/Nature: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints]( [Human/Nature: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints]( OPENING SOON June 13–September 24, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery]( [Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery]( CLOSING SOON 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 [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion]( [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion]( Through September 2, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare]( [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare]( Through October 27, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Teens Take The Met! | Friday, May 31, 4-8 PM]( [Teens Take The Met! (Ages 13–18)]( Friday, May 31, 4–8 pm Museum-wide, The Met Fifth Avenue Grab your friends and celebrate the 10th anniversary of Teens Take The Met! Drop in for teen-only activities across the Museum, including art making, performances, music, and more. Discover what you can also do at over 50 NYC cultural and community organizations. Free; reservations are encouraged to beat the line! [RSVP now →]( [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 [Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion](, [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting](, [Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt](, [Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.](, [Human/Nature: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints](, [Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery](, [Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting](, [Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance](, [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism](, and [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare](. [Harlem is Everywhere]( is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Teens Take The Met! is made possible by the Gray Foundation. 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: Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1735–78). [The Disrobing of Draupadi](, ca. 1760–65. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, Image: 9 11/16 × 13 7/16 in. (24.6 × 34.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, by exchange, 2022, (2022.247) | Installation view of Adrian Piper’s [Everything #4]( (2004) at The Met Cloisters | Featured artist Chang Yuchen introduces her [Coral Dictionary](, a lexicon of words from an invented language comprised of coral bodies. Photo by Ruoyun Chen | Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000). [Pool Parlor](, 1942. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 31 1/8 x 22 7/8 in. (79.1 x 58.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1942 (42.167) | Pitcher, Tiffany & Co. 1878. Silver, copper, brass, gold-silver alloy, copper-gold alloy. Private Collection, New York | Nina Jordan (American, born 1964). Untitled, Flooded Home V, 2021. Color woodcut, 11 1/2 in. × 18 in. (29.2 × 45.7 cm). Gift of Katherine Beinecke Michel, 2023 (2023.176.2) © 2021 Nina Jordan | 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 | 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