Met News: Perspectives

Celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, new exhibitions, and the latest podcasts. [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month]( [Celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month]( [Celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month]( Contemporary artists reflect on how their culture and The Met's collection influence their practice.[Read now →]( [Reimagining Peruvian Portraiture with Ana de Orbegoso]( [Reimagining Peruvian Portraiture with Ana de Orbegoso]( Learn how the artist updates ancient Andean aesthetics to reflect the world today. [Read now →]( [The Living History of Colombian Art]( [The Living History of Colombian Art]( Colombia's art and unique geography provide a different way of looking at and understanding the country's past. [Read now →]( [More Perspectives]( [Immaterial: Bonus Episode, Tarot]( [Immaterial: Bonus Episode, Tarot]( Grab a cup of tea and join us for a bonus episode on tarot. [Listen now →]( [Mokume-gane]( [Materials & Techniques: Mokume-gane]( Learn more about an ancient Japanese metalworking technique, translated to mean "wood eye" or "wood grain", by which layers of contrasting colored metals are fused together with heat and pressure and worked to produce a patterned mixed-metal laminate. [Read now →]( [An Evening with Artist Hew Locke]( [An Evening with Artist Hew Locke]( Join artist Hew Locke for a conversation about [The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt](, which references works of art in The Met collection that span continents and millennia. [Watch now →]( [Exhibition Highlights]( [The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt]( [The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt]( JUST OPENED Through May 22, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art]( [Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art]( JUST OPENED Through January 29, 2023 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 [Past/Present/Future: Expanding Indigenous American, Latinx, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Perspectives in Thomas J. Watson Library]( [Past/Present/Future: Expanding Indigenous American, Latinx, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Perspectives in Thomas J. Watson Library]( JUST OPENED Opens January 3, 2023 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 [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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Watson Library](, [Van Gogh, Mondrian, and Munch: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints](, [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: Enrique Chagoya, The Waters of Oblivion in Mictlán, 2021. © Enrique Chagoya. Courtesy Enrique Chagoya | Felipe Baeza, Unrecognizable form, refusing to be governed, 2022. © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London. | Victoria Villasana. Soldadera. © Victoria Villasana. Courtesy Victoria Villasana | Raelis Vasquez. La Mesa Nuestra, 2021. © Raelis Vasquez. Courtesy Raelis Vasquez | Fernando Botero (Colombian, born 1932). [Dancing in Colombia](, 1980. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Anonymous Gift, 1983 (1983.251) © Fernando Botero | Tiffany & Co. (1837–present). [Cigarette Case]( and [Match Case](, 1890–1900. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss (41.140.2-3) | Photo by Danny Cozens, 2020 | Zheng Xie, [Orchids and Bamboo]( (detail), Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1742. Edward Elliott Family Collection, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1981 | Unrecorded potter, attributed to Miles Mill Pottery (1867–85). Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. Face jug, 1867–85. Hudgins Family Collection, New York | [The Puerto Rican War](, 2020, [John Vasquez Mejias], publisher. United States, New York. Comic book, 1 volume (unpaged), H. 27 cm. Thomas J. Watson Library (F1975 .M44 2020) | 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) | 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)