Martin Filler on Frank Lloyd Wright Longtime Review contributor Martin Filler talks to Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn about Frank Lloyd Wright’s uniquely American architecture.
Historical skills: weights and measurements Andrew Delbanco on the Universities in Trouble Andrew Delbanco, director of American Studies at Columbia University, speaks with Michael Shae about the financial crisis facing American higher education.
Garry Wills on the Death of Conservatism Garry Wills speaks with Hugh Eakin about the end of the age of Buckley, the rise of right-wing radicalism, and the crisis facing the American conservative movement.
Joost Hiltermann on Iraq on the Edge Joost Hiltermann speaks with Nathan Thrall about the political crisis facing Iraq as it prepares for parliamentary elections in 2010 and the final withdrawal of all American troops by the end of the following year.
Cathleen Schine on Gail Collins Cathleen Schine speaks with Sasha Weiss about Gail Collins’s book When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, and about the victories and failures of the women’s movement.
Games Technologies for Learning 013 Work of Art: Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child Lesson Modules 038 The New American Wing: The Verplanck Room 039 The New American Wing: American Art Pottery 043 Special Exhibition: The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion 047 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice 049 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer 051 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: George Caleb Bingham's Take on Electi 057 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Author Elizabeth Strout Discusses Two meet the artist: Brian Jungen Giovanna Chesler on Christoph Girardet's "Release" Friday Gallery Talks: Jeffrey Grove on "Morris Louis" Meet the Artist: Byron Kim
This module aims to identify and explain some common difficulties in deciphering units of weights, measurements, and money in historical documents. Explores English and Welsh measuring systems, predominantly those used from the late sixteenth and early 17th centuries onwards, and those in force after the Weights and Measures Act of 1824.
The resource includes a glossary and bibliography. Illustrative images of items from our collections appear throughout.
The Games Technologies for Learning report explores the ways in which games technologies can be used to enhance teaching and learning, and provides advice for schools and colleges wishing to introduce...
Curator Carrie Rebora Barratt tells the story of one of the greatest icons of American painting, Emanuel Leutze's monumental Washington Crossing the Delaware.
In recognition of the historic 18th Birthday of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), we have assembled a human rights education media environment to help introduce the CRC to learners. Our intended audience is young adults, middle school through early college. The components include an interactive workshop on the CRC which can be easily facilitated in a single class period, background information on the Convention, the text of the CRC including a shortened child-friendly version
Metropolitan Museum curators Morrison Heckscher and Amelia Peck discuss the details of an eighteenth-century period room furnished with the belongings of the Verplanck family. Along with eighteen other period rooms, the Verplanck Room will return to public view when the New American Wing reopens on May 19, 2009. More information about the period rooms is available on the Museum's Audio Guide.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, the Metropolitan Museum's Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, talks with Robert Ellison about his collection of American ceramics from 1876 to 1956, a promised gift to the Museum. The works will be displayed on the mezzanine balcony of the Charles Engelhard Court in the New American Wing, which reopens to the public on May 19, 2009. More in
Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer, talks with Harold Koda, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, and Kohle Yohannan, guest co-curator, about the 1995 documentary Unzipped. In the following excerpts from the conversation, Mizrahi talks about rallying his talent, his team, and his friends—the supermodels—early in his career. A video of the entire conversation is available on the Met's YouTube channel.
October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010
Curator Barbara Weinberg introduces artist Eric Fischl, who takes a fresh look at two of the John Singer Sargent paintings—An Interior in Venice and A Street in Venice—that are included in the exhibition "Author(s):
October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010
Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food depicted in two paintings by Lilly Martin Spencer—Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the 'Lasses and Young Husband: First Marketing—on view in the exhi
October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010
Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter shares his insights on Election Day and on George Caleb Bingham’s painting The County Election, on view in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915."
October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout shares her responses to Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two of the Winslow Homer paintings in the exhibition "Author(s):
The Vancouver-based artist Brian Jungen discusses the work featured in his solo exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and future projects with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, chief curator at Castello di Rivoli and the artistic director of Documenta 13.
Assistant Professor at American University’s School of Communication Giovanna Chesler discusses Christoph Girodet’s “Release” in "The Cinema Effect."
High Museum curator of modern and contemporary art, Jeffrey Grove, leads a gallery talk on "Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited".
Join Byron Kim for an evening discussion exploring his deeply personal work. Although his visual language is primarily minimal and abstract, it is inspired by the people around him. The works are rich in references to the human form and aspects of identity. Early in his career, Kim was the subject of a 1996 Directions show at the Museum. His work is now shown internationally and collected by top institutions, including the Hirshhorn.
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