Two scholars consider the displacement of Assyrian people and their art

This episode, hear from Sarah Lepinski, associate curator in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, and Sargon Donabed, associate professor of history at Roger Williams University.

Featured artwork: Relief Panel, Assyrian, ca. 883–859 B.C.

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Spotlight features new perspectives on a single work from The Met collection each. Familiar and celebrated works serve as the focal point for dialogue—posing questions, building understanding, and conveying how the presence of the work in the Museum has altered, limited, or enhanced the work’s interpretation. The series explores different ways of knowing, and relates to themes beyond art and museums through the expertise and personal experience of invited guests.

Two scholars discuss misconceptions about race and polychromy in the ancient world

This episode, hear from Sarah Lepinski, associate curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art, and Dan-el Padilla Peralta, associate professor of classics at Princeton University.

Featured artwork: Marble portrait bust of the emperor Gaius, known as Caligula, Roman, A.D. 37–41

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Spotlight features new perspectives on a single work from The Met collection each. Familiar and celebrated works serve as the focal point for dialogue—posing questions, building understanding, and conveying how the presence of the work in the Museum has altered, limited, or enhanced the work’s interpretation. The series explores different ways of knowing, and relates to themes beyond art and museums through the expertise and personal experience of invited guests.

What does the androgynous depiction of Hatshepsut—and its subsequent destruction—tell us about the role of gender in Ancient Egypt?

This episode, hear from Aude Semat, assistant curator in the Department of Egyptian Art, and Mona Eltahawy, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Feminist Giant.

Featured artwork: Seated Statue of Hatshepsut, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.

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Spotlight features new perspectives on a single work from The Met collection. Familiar and celebrated works serve as the focal point for dialogue—posing questions, building understanding, and conveying how the presence of the work in the Museum has altered, limited, or enhanced the work’s interpretation. The series explores different ways of knowing, and relates to themes beyond art and museums through the expertise and personal experience of invited guests.

Introducing Immaterial, a brand new podcast from The Met. Hosted by poet Camille T. Dungy, Immaterial examines the materials of art and what they can reveal about history, humanity, and the world at large. Each episode looks at a single material: paper, clay, jade, shells, and others, exploring the qualities and meanings that are often overlooked. Launching May 25th; new episodes publish every other Wednesday.

Listen to Immaterial on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

For a transcript and more information, please visit www.metmuseum.org/immaterial

“The perception of America as an uninhabited wilderness is in its own way, a historical fiction.” – Alan C. Braddock, professor and ecocritic

This episode, hear from Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture in The American Wing, and Alan C. Braddock, Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies at William and Mary.

Featured artwork: View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow by Thomas Cole, 1836

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Spotlight features new perspectives on a single work from The Met collection. Familiar and celebrated works serve as the focal point for dialogue—posing questions, building understanding, and conveying how the presence of the work in the Museum has altered, limited, or enhanced the work’s interpretation. The series explores different ways of knowing, and relates to themes beyond art and museums through the expertise and personal experience of invited guests.

Are you looking for ways to calm your mind and find inspiration? Frame of Mind, an uplifting podcast from The Met, presents all kinds of personal stories about how art supports well-being. Discover how art has the power to connect, inspire, and restore us wherever we are.

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This podcast features artists discussing works from the exhibition and themes that arise in representations of the Black figure in Western art

Hear perspectives of contemporary artists on how Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and other sculptors of his time represented and, in many ways, mischaracterized the idea of freedom in their work. Speakers include painter Elizabeth Colomba, photographer Delphine Diallo, and artist, professor, and activist Fabienne Kanor.

Produced for the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast

This podcast is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

An angle on commerce and consumerism through the “holy grail” of baseball card collecting

This episode hear from Allison Rudnick, assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, and Dave Jamieson, journalist and author of Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession. 

Featured artwork: Honus Wagner, Pittsburgh, National League, from the White Border series (T206). Issued by American Tobacco Company, 1909–11

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Spotlight features new perspectives on a single work from The Met collection. Familiar and celebrated works serve as the focal point for dialogue—posing questions, building understanding, and conveying how the presence of the work in the Museum has altered, limited, or enhanced the work’s interpretation. The series explores different ways of knowing, and relates to themes beyond art and museums through the expertise and personal experience of invited guests.

Two scholars challenge assumptions about the origins of a Byzantine mosaic and the intent of its maker.

This episode hear from Andrea Myers Achi, assistant curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, and Liz James, Byzantinist and professor of art history at the University of Sussex.

Featured artwork: Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis. Byzantine, 500–550, with modern restoration.

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The Spotlight series features new perspectives on a single work from The Met collection. Familiar and celebrated works serve as the focal point for dialogue—posing questions, building understanding, and conveying how the presence of the work in the Museum has altered, limited, or enhanced the work’s interpretation. The series explores different ways of knowing and relates to themes beyond art and museums through the expertise and personal experience of invited guests.

Watch award-winning author Min Jin Lee bring a fresh perspective to an ancient image of a boy pulling a thorn from his foot—Spinario—rendered exquisitely by the artist Antico. Lee’s reflections on the daily struggle of being an artist is honest and moving, and invites a close look at and careful consideration of the Spinario itself.

Featured artwork: Spinario (Boy Pulling a Thorn from His Foot) by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi), probably modeled by 1496, cast ca. 1501

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The Spotlight series features new perspectives on a single work from The Met collection. Familiar and celebrated works serve as the focal point for dialogue—posing questions, building understanding, and conveying how the presence of the work in the Museum has altered, limited, or enhanced the work’s interpretation. The series explores different ways of knowing and relates to themes beyond art and museums through the expertise and personal experience of invited guests.