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Artist interview with Cecily Brown, Women's History Month, Arms and Armor, and Exhibitions! [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Artist Interview—Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid]( [Artist Interview—Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid]( Go behind the scenes with artist Cecily Brown, who discusses the inspiration and making of [Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid](, the first full-fledged museum survey of Brown's work in New York since she made the city her home.[Watch now →]( [Women's Work, Part 2 ]( [Women's Work, Part 2]( A second installment of conversations with contemporary women artists who reflect on their art and share what inspires them most in the Museum.[Read now →]( [Anita Reinhard: A Trailblazing Curator of Arms and Armor]( [Anita Reinhard: A Trailblazing Curator of Arms and Armor]( One of the first women curators in an American museum, Reinhard was a pioneer in her field. [Learn more →]( [Digital Premiere: Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor]( [Digital Premiere: Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor]( In February 2022, artist Suzanne Bocanegra presented Honor, a stage work that masqueraded as an artist lecture about one of The Met's most important 16th-century tapestries. [Watch now →]( [Mapping Berenice Abbott's New York]( [Mapping Berenice Abbott's New York]( New research charts the photographer's many excursions across Manhattan in 1929. [Learn more →]( [Women's History Month]( [Women's History Month]( Celebrate the vital contributions women make to our lives, art, and society. [Explore now →]( [Exhibition Highlights]( [Berenice Abbott's New York Album, 1929]( [Berenice Abbott's New York Album, 1929]( Through September 4, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Rich Man, Poor Man: Art, Class, and Commerce in a Late Medieval Town]( [Rich Man, Poor Man: Art, Class, and Commerce in a Late Medieval Town]( Through August 20, 2023 The Met Cloisters [Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color]( [Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color]( FINAL WEEKEND Through March 26, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [A New Look at Old Masters]( [A New Look at Old Masters]( FINAL WEEKEND Through March 26, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Water Memories]( [Water Memories]( CLOSING SOON Through April 2, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art]( [Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art]( CLOSING SOON Through April 2, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter]( [Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter]( UPCOMING Opens April 3, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid]( [Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid]( UPCOMING Opens April 4, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey]( [The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey]( UPCOMING Opens April 18, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty]( [Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty]( UPCOMING Opens May 5, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Plan Your Visit]( See the [Plan Your Visit page]( for more information about buying tickets in advance. 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Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. [Donate now.]( Honor was commissioned by MetLiveArts. This program was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, with additional funding from the General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA. Comments are welcome at [metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org](mailto:MetMuseum_Newsletter@metmuseum.org). Images: Ellen Gallagher (American, 1965). [Delirious Hem](, 1995. Graphite and colored pencil on papers, mounted on canvas, 84 x 72 1/4 in. (213 x 184 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Norman Dubrow, 2010 (2010.427.3) © Ellen Gallagher | Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991). Page from New York Album, 1929–30. Gelatin silver prints, 10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Emanuel Gerard, 1984 (1984.1097.9–.18). © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc. | Architectural Support with a Peasant Holding a Club, 1524–1549. Made in Exeter (by French woodworkers), England. French. Oak, 83 x 9 1/2 x 12 in., 111 lb. (211 x 24.1 x 30.5 cm, 50.3 kg). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1974 (1974.295.3) | Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Reconstruction of marble finial in the form of a sphinx (detail), 2022. 3D print in polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gilded copper, gilded tin. 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) | An array of European Paintings viewable at The Met Fifth Ave. | © Cara Romero (Native American (Chemehuevi), born 1977). Water Memory (detail), 2021. Photograph, Framed: 41 × 41 in. (104.1 × 104.1 cm). | Maya artist. Whistle with the Maize God emerging from a flower (detail), Mexico, Late Classic period (A.D. 600–900). Ceramic, pigment. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.728) | Juan de Pareja (Spanish, ca. 1608–1670). The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1661. Oil on canvas, 88 1/2 in. x 10 ft. 8 in. (225 x 325 cm). Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (P001041). Photo: © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado | Cecily Brown. Maid in a Landscape, 2021. Oil on linen. Private collection. Courtesy the artist, photo by Genevieve Hanson