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DK Books Set: What the Artist Saw Women Artists
61.95 USD
Books for kids. Get to know these celebrated women artists. Learn all about how they experimented with their practices, and how they channeled their lives and experiences into their art. This charming illustrated series considers what inspired famous artists, and encourages the creation of new works.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now
72.95 USD
Met Museum publications make the perfect gifts for art lovers. By Akili Tommasino With contributions by Andrea Myers Achi, Erykah Badu, Makeda Best, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Awol Erizku, Lauren Halsey, Iman Issa, Solange Knowles, Mia Matthias, Julie Mehretu, Kai Mora, Jennifer Newsom, Matthew Shenoda, and Fred Wilson From the late nineteenth century onward, Black Americans looked to ancient Egypt as evidence of a preeminent ancient culture from the African continent. Flight into Egypt traces ancient Egypt's influence on artists, from Edmonia Lewis's sculpture The Death of Cleopatra (1876) to the efflorescence of Afrocentric visual art during the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and artistic tendencies of the ensuing decades. This volume explores how Black artists, writers, and musicians-and modern and contemporary Egyptian artists-have employed ancient Egyptian imagery to craft a unifying identity. Authors bring to light the overlooked contributions of Black scholars to the study of ancient Egypt, while statements by contemporary Black and Egyptian artists illuminate ancient Egypt's continued hold on the creative imagination. Akili Tommasino is Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Divine Egypt Coloring Book
32.95 USD
An art coloring book makes a perfect gift. The deities of ancient Egypt were depicted in a multitude of different forms that reflected their diverse roles within myth and religious beliefs. This extraordinary coloring book features new original drawings of deities accompanied by hieroglyphs detailing their names and important epithets. All drawings were made by Sara Chen, and the texts were researched and arranged by Brendan Hainline, both from The Met's Department of Egyptian Art. Together, Hainline, a researcher with expertise in Egyptian language and religion, and Chen, a draftsperson and excavation artist, have developed a fun and enriching Museum coloring book for all ages. We're pleased to present this item in celebration of the Museum's exhibition Divine Egypt, on view from October 12, 2025, through January 19, 2026. In ancient Egypt, images of gods weren't just images-they brought the gods to life. Egyptians believed that it was through their depictions in tombs, temples, and shrines that the deities could enter sacred spaces and become active participants in rituals, offering a vital connection between the human and divine worlds. Over Egypt's long history, its belief system grew to include more than 1,500 gods with many overlapping forms and traits. Subtle visual cues like what a figure wore, how they posed, or the symbols they carried helped identify them and their roles. Divine Egyptbrings together almost 250 works of art and objects to examine the imagery associated with the most important deities in ancient Egypt's massive body of gods. Read our blog post
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Mcc Brands LLC Watercolor Painting Set
37.95 USD
Gifts for artists. This perfectly portable watercolor set comes with all the essentials needed to create your very own hand-painted masterpiece. Watercolors are a forgiving media that can be mixed, blended, and thinned to render seemingly limitless effects-from realistic paintings to impressionistic interpretations of the world around you. Simply add water and you're ready to go.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
42.95 USD
A Met Museum publication is the perfect gift. By Iris Moon Monstrous Beauty presents a bold cross-cultural history of porcelain told through a feminist lens. Prized for its delicate quality and whiteness, porcelain was first imported to Europe from China in the early modern period and gained lasting associations with Chinoiserie, a style that encapsulated associations of mystery and enchantment with Asia. This book probes the collective anxieties around gender, race, and sexuality lurking under the surface of this ornate style, derided by some eighteenth-century critics as monstrous and unnatural. In interconnected essays, Iris Moon unpacks Chinoiserie's language of curiosity and exoticism. Here, close looking at garnitures, plates, teacups and saucers reveals how the desire to collect and possess porcelain created entrenched cultural myths of the Asian woman, and how it later extended into such mediums as photography and film. In addition, sixteen readings by contemporary artists and scholars, of works ranging from the sixteenth century to the present, respond to this fraught history by asking how we can engage in meaningful dialogues about Chinoiserie today. Iris Moon is associate curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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DK Publishing The Met 5000 Years of Awesome Objects
37.94 USD
Bring the art home with a Met Museum publication. By Aaron Rosen, Susie Hodge, Susie Brooks and Mary Richards Imagine having 5,000 of human history's most amazing artefacts at your fingertips! Go on a trip through the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art without ever leaving your home! Prepare to explore the treasures of the world's civilizations-from ancient Egyptian amulets, Mayan jewelry, and prehistoric tools-to Medieval tapestries, Renaissance suits of armor, and modern-day baseball cards. Each page brings you closer to the past as you learn about the people of different ages through the objects they left behind. Discover hand-picked highlights of the museum's huge collection as you travel through history, one incredible object at a time. This book combines exclusive Met photography with colorful and quirky illustrations in a resource that parents can trust, with a design that kids will love.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance
57.95 USD
A Met Museum catalogue is the perfect gift for art lovers. Edited by Alison Manges Nogueira Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their meaning. Hidden Faces includes seventy objects, ranging in format from covered paintings to miniature boxes, that illuminate the symbiotic relationship between the portrait and its pair. Texts by thirteen distinguished scholars vividly illustrate that the other "faces" of these portraits represent some of the most innovative images of the Renaissance, created by masters such as Hans Memling and Titian. Uniting works that have in some cases been separated for centuries, this fascinating volume shows how the multifaceted format unveiled the sitter's identity, both by physically revealing the portrait and reading the significance behind its cover. Alison Manges Nogueira is curator in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Raphael: Sublime Poetry
82.95 USD
By Carmen C. Bambach Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483-1520) is unquestionably one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance. Despite living only thirty-seven years, he quickly emerged as a peer to both Leonardo and his avowed rival, Michelangelo. Raphael: Sublime Poetry spans his short but spectacular life and career, from his early training amid the culture of his native Urbino, through his prolific years in Florence, to his final, magnificent decade at the papal court in Rome. Though Raphael is best known for his meteoric success as a painter, draftsman, designer, and architect, this catalogue highlights his equal accomplishments as a humanist, antiquarian, and poet. Carmen C. Bambach offers fresh perspectives on the beloved artist, reconsidering his well-known masterpieces and uncovering the importance of rarely seen treasures. The publication also sheds new light on Raphael's relationship with women by identifying previously unrecognized models for his portraits and discussing the agency of his female patrons. Bringing together more than 170 of Raphael's drawings, paintings, tapestries, and decorative arts from public and private collections around the world, this catalogue is rich in archival discoveries and firsthand technical analyses. Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, it is the definitive text on the artist's life, art, and enduring legacy. Carmen C. Bambach is Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Suspended Moment: The Architecture of Frida Escobedo
42.95 USD
Met Museum publications make perfect gifts for art lovers. Edited by Max Hollein Contributions by Abraham Thomas, Paola Santoscoy, David Breslin, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli Architect Frida Escobedo's (b. 1979) designs for public spaces have received global accolades. In 2022, she was commissioned to design the new Oscar L. Tang and H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Suspended Moment is the first overall survey of her career to-date including her award-winning structures that treat space as a language-layered, responsive, and reflective of both a site's history and its present. This timely profile of the first woman to design a wing at the Museum explores Escobedo's attention to gender, accessibility, and the environment. Focusing on both temporary and permanent structures in the context of her burgeoning career, the publication delves into Escobedo's twodecade multimedia practice. Interviews with the architect alongside informed essays discuss the bases of her work and her diverse inspirations, ranging from concrete poetry to her hometown of Mexico City, which she describes as a "modern metropolis with ancient roots... in other words, a living, breathing museum." Max Hollein is the Marina Kellen French Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This publication is available in English and Spanish
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Suspended Moment: The Architecture of Frida Escobedo
42.95 USD
Met Museum publications make perfect gifts for art lovers. Edited by Max Hollein Contributions by Abraham Thomas, Paola Santoscoy, David Breslin, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli Architect Frida Escobedo's (b. 1979) designs for public spaces have received global accolades. In 2022, she was commissioned to design the new Oscar L. Tang and H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Suspended Moment is the first overall survey of her career to-date including her award-winning structures that treat space as a language-layered, responsive, and reflective of both a site's history and its present. This timely profile of the first woman to design a wing at the Museum explores Escobedo's attention to gender, accessibility, and the environment. Focusing on both temporary and permanent structures in the context of her burgeoning career, the publication delves into Escobedo's twodecade multimedia practice. Interviews with the architect alongside informed essays discuss the bases of her work and her diverse inspirations, ranging from concrete poetry to her hometown of Mexico City, which she describes as a "modern metropolis with ancient roots... in other words, a living, breathing museum." Max Hollein is the Marina Kellen French Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This publication is available in English and Spanish
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Surrealism Beyond Borders
47.95 USD
Edited by Stephanie D'Alessandro and Matthew Gale Challenging conventional narratives of a revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement, this publication traces Surrealism's influence and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as geographically diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey. The catalogue includes more than 300 works of art in a variety of media by well-known figures-including Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, and Miró-as well as numerous artists who are less widely known. Contributions from more than forty distinguished international scholars explore the network of Surrealist exchange and collaboration, artists' responses to the challenges of social and political unrest, and the experience of displacement and exile in the twentieth century. The multiple narratives addressed in this expansive book move beyond the borders of history, geography, and nationality to provocatively redraw the map of Surrealism. Stephanie D'Alessandro is the Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Senior Research Coordinator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matthew Gale is Senior Curator at Larger at Tate Modern.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Surrealism Beyond Borders
72.95 USD
Edited by Stephanie D'Alessandro and Matthew Gale Challenging conventional narratives of a revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement, this publication traces Surrealism's influence and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as geographically diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey. The catalogue includes more than 300 works of art in a variety of media by well-known figures-including Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, and Miró-as well as numerous artists who are less widely known. Contributions from more than forty distinguished international scholars explore the network of Surrealist exchange and collaboration, artists' responses to the challenges of social and political unrest, and the experience of displacement and exile in the twentieth century. The multiple narratives addressed in this expansive book move beyond the borders of history, geography, and nationality to provocatively redraw the map of Surrealism. Stephanie D'Alessandro is the Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Senior Research Coordinator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matthew Gale is Senior Curator at Larger at Tate Modern.