Met News: September 2022

Inventing the piano, season finale of Immaterial, and upcoming Fall exhibitions [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [September 2022]( [Inventing the Piano]( [Inventing the Piano]( Opera singer and renowned countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and Jayson Kerr Dobney, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments, discuss how the human voice influenced the invention of the piano. [Listen now →]( [Immaterial: Metals, Part One]( [Immaterial: Metals, Part One]( Dive into the magic of iron, bronze, lead, and copper in the first half of Immaterial's season finale. [Listen now →]( [Immaterial: Metals, Part Two]( [Immaterial: Metals, Part Two]( Mercury, silver, and gold. Three of the most powerful substances on Earth are also among the most enigmatic. [Listen now →]( [Insider Insights | The Japanese Kimono]( [Insider Insights | The Japanese Kimono]( Join Met experts to explore the history and modernization of the Japanese kimono. Learn about Japan's famed weaving, dying, and embroidery techniques along with discoveries from new scientific research. [Watch now →]( [AFPR—Meet The Artists: Zizipho Poswa]( [AFPR—Meet The Artists: Zizipho Poswa]( Zizipho Poswa's sculpture "Noxolo" references a magodi, a traditional African hairstyle, which she associates with memories of her aunt—after whom she named the piece.⁣ [Watch now →]( [Reconstructing the Archaic Greek Sphinx]( [Reconstructing the Archaic Greek Sphinx]( See how the sphinx of a Greek funerary monument was reconstructed in its original form and color.[Read now →]( [Something for Everyone: From the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum Journal]( [Something for Everyone: From the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum Journal]( The Metropolitan Museum Journal Board shares some of their favorite articles past and present.[Read now →]( [Exhibition Highlights]( [In Full Bloom: Margaret Armstrong's Decorated Publishers' Bindings Revisited]( [In Full Bloom: Margaret Armstrong's Decorated Publishers' Bindings Revisited]( CLOSING SOON Through September 21, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue [Van Gogh, Mondrian, and Munch: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints]( [Van Gogh, Mondrian, and Munch: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints]( Through October 11, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue [Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina]( [Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina]( JUST OPENED Through February 5, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art]( [Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art]( OPENS TOMORROW Through January 29, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt]( [The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt]( UPCOMING Opens September 15, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England]( [The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England]( UPCOMING Opens October 10, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue [Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition]( [Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition]( UPCOMING Opens October 20, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue [Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art]( [Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art]( UPCOMING Opens November 21, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue [See all current exhibitions →]( Travel with The Met [Extend Your Met Experience beyond the Walls of the Museum]( [Extend Your Met Experience beyond the Walls of the Museum]( In the Travel with The Met program, join our curators and educators on exclusive art and cultural journeys—in the U.S. and around the world. 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[Read our visitor guidelines.]( [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]( [Manage Your Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe]( For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit [In Full Bloom: Margaret Armstrong's Decorated Publishers' Bindings Revisited](, [Van Gogh, Mondrian, and Munch: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints](, [Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina](, [Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art](, [The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt](, [The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England](, [Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition](, and [Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art](. Immaterial is made possible by Dasha Zhukova Niarchos. Additional support is provided 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: Grand Piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori (Padua 1655–1731 Florence), 1720. The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889. | Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Reconstruction of marble finial in the form of a sphinx (detail), 2022. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project), Frankfurt am Main; original: Greece, ca. 530 B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ([11.185d, x]() | [The Legend of Sleepy Hollow](, 1899, G.P. Putnam's Sons and Knickerbocker Press, publishers. United States, New York. Thomas J. Watson Library (Publishers Bindings 760) | Vincent van Gogh, Burning Weeds (detail), ca. mid-July 1883. Purchase, Fletcher Fund, William R. Drexler Sr. and Violet Drexler Bequest, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation, in honor of Nadine M. Orenstein and Charles and Jessie Price Gifts, 2021 (2021.242) | Unrecorded potter, attributed to Miles Mill Pottery (1867–85). Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. Face jug, 1867–85. Hudgins Family Collection, New York | Zheng Xie, [Orchids and Bamboo]( (detail), Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1742. Edward Elliott Family Collection, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1981 | Photo by Danny Cozens, 2020 | Quentin Metsys the Younger. Elizabeth I of England (“The Sieve Portrait”) (detail), 1583. Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena. By permission of Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. Polo museale della Toscana. Photo Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena | L-R: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963). Violin and Sheet Music: “Petit Oiseau,” early 1913. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; William Michael Harnett (American, (1848–1892). [Still Life—Violin and Music](, 1888. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund (63.85) | Maya artist. [Whistle with the Maize God emerging from a flower]( (detail), Mexico, Late Classic period (A.D. 600–900). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.728)