Art in your inbox: January 2023

For the new year: Astrolabes, Virtual Tours, Paul Klee, and more! [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Using the Astronomicum Caesareum Book]( [Using the Astronomicum Caesareum Book]( This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions. [Watch now →]( [Virtual Tour: Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina ]( [Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina | Virtual Tour]( Take a virtual tour of [Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina](, on view now through February 5, 2023.[Watch now →]( [Paul Klee: "In the Magic Kitchen"]( [Paul Klee: "In the Magic Kitchen"]( Paul Klee was unrivaled among his contemporaries in his wide-ranging experimentation with materials and unconventional techniques. Join scholar Charles W. Haxthausen as he explores the variety of Klee's practice and reflects on its art-historical implications. [Watch now →]( [Set in Stone: Maya Rulers in the Great Hall | Installation Time-Lapse]( [Set in Stone: Maya Rulers in the Great Hall | Installation Time-Lapse]( Watch a time-lapse of the multiday installation of two Maya stelae. [Watch now →]( [Exhibition Highlights]( [Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition]( [Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition]( "Eye-bending, wonderfully frisky" —[The New York Times]( CLOSING SOON Through January 22, 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]( "Revelatory" —[The New York Times]( FINAL WEEKS Through February 5, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints]( [The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints]( FINAL WEEKS Through February 7, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art]( [Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit]( OPENING SOON January 21–February 4, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Richard Avedon: MURALS]( [Richard Avedon: MURALS]( OPENING SOON January 19–October 1, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art]( [Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art]( OPENING SOON January 26–April 16, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [See all current exhibitions →]( [Your Digital Guide to The Met]( [Bloomberg Connects App]( Enhance your visit to The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters with the Bloomberg Connects app. Explore 100 highlights from The Met collection with our free digital guide. 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[Donate now.]( Comments are welcome at [metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org](mailto:MetMuseum_Newsletter@metmuseum.org). Images: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963). Violin and Sheet Music: “Petit Oiseau,” early 1913. Oil and charcoal on canvas. 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. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund (63.85) | Unrecorded potter, attributed to Miles Mill Pottery (1867–85). Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. Face jug, 1867–85. Alkaline-glazed stoneware with kaolin, H. 8 in. (20.3 cm). Hudgins Family Collection, New York | Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper (detail), 1952 (published 1968-70). Linocut, block: 17 11/16 x 16 7/8 in. (44.9 x 42.9 cm) sheet: 30 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. John B. Turner Fund, 1981 (1981.1098.1) © 2022 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY | [Vase](. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Porcelain painted in cobalt blue under a transparent glaze, H. 23 in. (58.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923 (24.80.168) | Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004). Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, New York, October 30, 1969. Gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm). Collection of The Richard Avedon Foundation © The Richard Avedon Foundation | Martinus Rørbye. [View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight]((detail), 1839. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007