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Katy Hessel, Women's History Month, and Exhibition Highlights [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Museums Without Men at The Met]( [Museums Without Men at The Met]( Celebrate Women's History Month with a new audio tour at The Met. Guest host Katy Hessel, author of the internationally bestselling book The Story of Art Without Men, speaks with Met experts and artists to highlight women artists who have been excluded from art-historical narratives and provide contemporary perspectives on issues of inclusion at the Museum and in the art world at large. [Explore now →]( ["Abstraction" — A Poem by Maggie Millner]( ["Abstraction" — A Poem by Maggie Millner]( In 1927, Georgia O'Keeffe had two surgeries to remove a benign lump from her breast; she completed the painting Black Abstraction (1927) a few weeks after the second surgery. The poet Maggie Millner responds to this striking work, which is a departure from O'Keeffe's famous depictions of landscapes, flowers, and skulls. [Listen now →]( [Representing the Female Body]( [Representing the Female Body]( Take a closer look at two feminist artworks from the 1980s by Lala Rukh and the Guerrilla Girls. These two posters, created by women more than 7,000 miles apart, spoke to the ongoing fight for justice and equality in the art world and beyond. [Read now →]( [Defying Gravity]( [Defying Gravity]( Learn how the transformative collaboration between designer Zelda Wynn Valdes and entertainer Joyce Bryant launched both artists to new creative heights in the 1950s.[Learn more →]( [Emel Mathlouthi: Fi Kolli Yawmen]( [Emel Mathlouthi: Fi Kolli Yawmen]( In 2018, MetLiveArts partnered with the World Music Institute to present three of the most creative, expressive female singers/songwriters hailing from Muslim-majority homelands. Emel Mathlouthi's viral anthem of the Arab Spring earned her the title "voice of the Tunisian revolution." [Watch now →]( [What's On]( [Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance]( [Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance]( UPCOMING April 2–July 7, 2024 The Met Cloisters [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare]( [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare]( UPCOMING April 30–October 27, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back]( [The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back]( Through May 28, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting]( [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting]( Through June 9, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection]( [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. 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Emel Mathlouthi: Fi Kolli Yawmen was performed as part of Women's Voices in March 2018. Women’s Voices was made possible by the Art Jameel Fund and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and was presented in collaboration with the World Music Institute. 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: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986). [Black Abstraction](, 1927. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 1/4 in. (76.2 x 102.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1969 (69.278.2) | Lala Rukh (Pakistani, 1948–2017). [Masaawi Haqooq](, 1983–84. Silk screen print, 28 1/8 x 19 1/4 in. (68.6 x 48.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of the Estate of Lala Rukh, 2019, (2019.403.3) | Image of Zelda Wynn Valdes with one of her costumes at the Dance Theater of Harlem. Courtesy Dance Theatre of Harlem Archive. | Lorenzo Lotto. Portrait of a Woman (detail), ca. 1505. Oil on wood panel. Musée des Beaux- Arts, Dijon. | Lorenzo Lotto. Portrait Cover with on Allegory (detail), ca. 1505. Oil on wood panel. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Samuel H. Kress Collection (1939.1.147) | Nairy Baghramian. Photo by Abigail Enzaldo. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, and Kurimanzutto | 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) | Edward Penfield (American, 1866–1925). Harper’s: February, 1897. Lithograph. 19 × 14 in. (48.3 × 35.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 1984 (1984.1202.96). | 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. | 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 | Murray Duitz (American, 1917–2010). A.S. Beck “Executive” Shoe, 1957. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 8 in. (27.94 x 20.32 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of the artist, 1975 (1975.601.2.1) | Kwon Young-woo (1926–2013). Untitled, 1984. Ink and gouache on hanji (Korean paper), 88 3/16 x 66 15/16 in. (224 x 170 cm). Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul. © Kwon Young-woo Estate. Image courtesy of Leeum Museum of Art. | Female figure, Cycladic, Early Cycladic II, ca. 2500–2400/2300 BCE. Marble. Leonard N. Stern Collection, Loan from the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture