Art Contents Archive

Balcony, SimzArt/Me, Digital, 2021

April showers, begone! We're ready for a whole lotta May flowers. What are your favorite floral artworks at The Met? 🌺 🌸 🌼 Explore them here and let us know! https://t.co/C1m3ubPcfV https://t.co/k0bl9EK6Pt

We hid an emoji in this artwork. Can you spot it? https://t.co/qY6VAsGBap

Gerhard Richter is permanently loaning his Holocaust paintings to Berlin's National Gallery in order to keep them off the market: https://t.co/JvRX5nX2FL https://t.co/Uibcksaeuz

Fluttering by to wish you a happy first day of May 🦋 Okamoto Shūki, "Pictures of Flowers and Birds," accordion-style album of 66 leaves; ink and color on silk, 19th century. https://t.co/jBo0mWPw3I

Made a watercolor painting of one of my favourite meme templates :)

While many may consider ancient alien theories outlandish but harmless, there's an extant spectrum of western denialism that seeks to rescind and reallocate the accomplishments of non-European civilizations. https://t.co/4SwzWq8TfJ

Now on view ✨ See sublime representations of Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, and Vajrapani—three bodhisattvas that emerge as personifications of Buddhist ideals across the Himalayas—in "Bodhisattvas of Wisdom, Compassion, and Power." https://t.co/YicSpha1lp

A new book explores Helen Frankenthaler's formative visits to the Prado Museum: https://t.co/LF4L02GJrY https://t.co/2f3YL0aAMl

"Freddie Mercury", Lada Polekhina, A3 paper, pencil, 2021

To be usefully employed as a color, billions of individual grains of pigment must be glued together with a binder. This is, in essence, how you make paint. https://t.co/zLaHASxoqP

Valentino cofounder Giancarlo Giammetti will sell a Basquiat painting from his collection at Christie's next month for $50 million, potentially making it one of the most expensive works by the artist to sell at auction (via @artmarket) https://t.co/bb98BBSpPJ

Definitions are 'an unfortunate way of seeing,' says Korean painter Yi Youjin. https://t.co/UJTenRwohU https://t.co/F5fNn0AgM8

An upstate New York home designed by artist Ai Weiwei has sold for $4.9 million: https://t.co/hK3RguXXEp https://t.co/XhrfacVm9S

This #AAPIHM, join The Met in celebrating the history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the arts. 🎥 Explore videos that spotlight artistic contributions made by the #AAPI community featured at the Museum. ↓ https://t.co/AH1qe68wuw