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Interviews with Artists, Fashion, New Exhibitions in 2024 and more! [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [To Provoke and Transgress]( [To Provoke and Transgress]( The writer Manijeh Moradian reflects on the unruly forms of Nairy Baghramian's Facade Commission. [The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back]( is on view at The Met through May 28, 2024. [Read now →]( [Artists on Artworks—Africa & Byzantium]( [Artists on Artworks—Africa & Byzantium]( Join artists as they reflect on works in the exhibition Africa & Byzantium and make connections to their own artistic practices. [Africa & Byzantium]( is on view at The Met through March 3, 2024. [Watch now →]( [Meet Mei Lum, Artist-in-Residence]( [Meet Mei Lum, Artist-in-Residence]( Mei Lum is the founder of the W.O.W. Project, a community initiative in Manhattan's Chinatown that amplifies local voices and stories through art, culture, and activism. [Watch now →]( [Hanae Mori (1926–2022)]( [Hanae Mori (1926–2022)]( The first Asian designer to become a member of the Paris haute couture syndicate, Hanae Mori occupied a singular position at the forefront of global fashion. Her work is featured in [Women Dressing Women](, on view at The Met through March 3, 2024. [Explore now →]( [MetKids: How Do Artworks Last for Thousands of Years?]( [MetKids: How Do Artworks Last for Thousands of Years?]( Take a journey in The Met's time machine and learn how some objects can last for hundreds of thousands of years! [Watch now →]( [Sign up for MetKids newsletters]( to receive more activities, videos, and content you can share with your kids. 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Burdick]( CLOSING SOON Through January 23, 2024 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]( CLOSING SOON Through February 4, 2024 The Met Cloisters [The Met Store]( [Holidays at The Met ]( [Shop now* →]( [Plan Your Visit]( See the [Plan Your Visit page]( for more information about buying tickets in advance. Please note our [current opening days and hours for each location](. See our [visitor guidelines]( for the latest health and safety updates. 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Lauder Collection](, [Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism](, [Proof: Maxime Du Camp's Photographs of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa](, [Baseball Cards from the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick](, and [Rich Man, Poor Man: Art, Class, and Commerce in a Late Medieval Town](. MetKids is 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). *Savings off original, regular, and/or already-reduced prices. Clearance items are not eligible for sitewide promotions, discounts, and/or other offers. Interim markdowns may have been taken. Quantities are limited. Void where prohibited. All Clearance merchandise is final sale and cannot be returned or exchanged. Images: Nairy Baghramian. Photo by Abigail Enzaldo. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, and Kurimanzutto | Mosaic Panel of Preparations for a Feast, Tunisia, Carthage, late 2nd century ce. Marble, limestone, molten glass, 94 1/2 x 88 5/8 in. (240 x 225 cm). Paris, Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Antiquities (MNC 1577; Ma1796). © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Hervé Lewandowski | Female figure, Cycladic, Early Cycladic II, ca. 2500–2400/2300 BCE. Marble. Leonard N. Stern Collection, Loan from the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture | Hua Guan (active late 18th to early 19th century). Portrait of a gentleman gathering chrysanthemums (detail), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1790. Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper. Purchase, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Bequest, 2023 (2023.299). | An Elephant and Keeper, India, Mughal, ca. 1650-60. Opaque color and gold on paper. Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022 (2022.187) | Caspar David Friedrich (German, Greifswald 1774–1840 Dresden). Two Men Contemplating the Moon, ca. 1825–30. Oil on canvas. 13 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. (34.9 x 43.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wrightsman Fund, 2000 (2000.51) | William H. Johnson (American, 1901–1970). Woman in Blue, c. 1943. Oil on burlap, 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm). Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Permanent Loan from the National Collection of Fine Art, 1969.013 | Anni Albers. Pasture, 1958. Mercerized cotton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1969 (69.135). © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2023. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Peter Zeray. | André Derain. Woman with a Shawl, Madame Matisse in a Kimono, 1905. Oil on canvas. Private collection, courtesy of Nevill Keating Pictures, London. © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. | Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894), Pyramid of Chephren (Khafre), viewed from the southeast (detail), December 10, 1849. Salted paper print from paper negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005 (2005.100.376.19); Du Camp, Pyramid of Chephren (Khafre), Middle Egypt (detail), 1852. Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981 (1981.1229.6.1) | 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). | Frederic, Lord Leighton (British, 1830–1896). Flaming June (detail), 1895. Oil on canvas. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.