Met News: Van Gogh in August

See the first installation of all sixteen of The Met's Van Gogh paintings in several years. [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News] [Van Gogh at The Met]( Assistant Curator Alison Hokanson celebrates the first installation of all sixteen of The Met's Van Gogh paintings in several years, and introduces readers to a bevy of temporary loans on view in August in the nineteenth-century European Paintings galleries. [Explore the galleries →]( [Inside The Met]( [Video Preview: Armenia!]( Watch a video preview of the exhibition [Armenia!]( opening September 22, 2018, at The Met Fifth Avenue. [New on the Timeline: What The Met Learned from the Persian Expedition]( In the latest Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essay, explore The Met's excavations at the site of Qasr-i Abu Nasr in southern Iran during the 1930s, which provided the Department of Near Eastern Art with valuable insight into Sasanian society and culture. [Art on Its Own Terms: Author Amelia Peck on Gee's Bend Quilts in My Soul Has Grown Deep]( In this interview, author and curator Amelia Peck discusses the history of quilting in Gee's Bend, Alabama, and how these works of art have historically been misunderstood. [Eternal Springtime: A Persian Garden Carpet from the Burrell Collection]( The Met welcomes the "Wagner Garden Carpet" to gallery 462, marking the first time this carpet—the third-oldest-known Persian garden carpet—has been on view in an American museum. [Beadwork in the Arts of Africa and Beyond]( Explore the ways in which beads and beadwork have been incorporated into many artistic traditions across the globe. [MetCollects—Episode 7 / 2018]( "Can nature's fragility be perceived?" Ranjani Shettar on her installation Seven ponds and a few raindrops. [Exhibition Highlights]( [African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s]( "... a rarely seen view of life at a time of change" —[Guardian]( Through October 8, 2018 The Met Fifth Avenue [On the Ropes: Vintage Boxing Cards from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection]( "... the sleeper hit of the summer." —[Hyperallergic]( Through October 21, 2018 The Met Fifth Avenue [Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin]( JUST OPENED Through April 21, 2019 The Met Fifth Avenue [Children to Immortals: Figural Representations in Chinese Art]( JUST OPENED Through February 23, 2020 The Met Fifth Avenue [See all current exhibitions →]( [From The Met Store]( [Charms of The Met - Shop Now]( [Edgar Degas: Met Sculpture Reproductions]( The Met houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of the work of Edgar Degas—including his posthumous bronzes. [Read now →]( [Members Count]( Help us bring life to art, and art to lives. 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[MetCollects]( and [#MetKids]( are 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: Altar frontal (detail). New Julfa, 1741. Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (626). Photo by Hrair Hawk Khatcherian | An excavation site in Qasr-i Abu Nasr in southern Iran, 1932–35. Achaemenid-style stones initially enticed excavators surveying the area as a potential site for exploration. | Willie "Ma Willie" Abrams (American, 1897–1987). [Roman Stripes quilt]( ca. 1975. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett. 2014 (2014.548.38) | The "Wagner" Garden Carpet (detail), 17th century. Iran, Kirman. Lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council: from the Burrell Collection with the approval of the Burrell Trustees | Detail view of a girl's apron (lighabi) made by the Ndebele peoples of South Africa | Unknown American makers and Daisy Studio (American, active 1940s). Studio Portraits, 1940s–50s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2015, 2017 (2017.560, 2015.339, 2015.309, 2015.338, 2017.583, 2017.591, 2017.636, 2015.328, 2015.344) | Issued by W.S. Kimball & Co. [John L. Sullivan, Champion Heavy Weight Pugilist of the World]( (detail), from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1), 1887. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (63.350.216.184.7) | [Gilded coffin belonging to the priest of Heryshef, Nedjemankh]( (detail). Late Ptolemaic to early Roman Period, first century B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Leona Sobel Education and The Camille M. Lownds Funds; and 2016 Benefit Fund, 2017 (2017.255a, b) | Chen Yanqing (Chinese, active 15th century). [Daoist immortal Laozi]( dated 1438. Chinese, Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1997 (1997.139)