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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Hokusai: Great Wave Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Assemble one of the most iconic images in Japanese art with our 500-piece puzzle. Katsushika Hokusai's (Japanese, 1760-1849) famous woodblock print Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa,also known as The Great Wave (ca. 1830-32) belongs to a series of various views of Mount Fuji in The Met collection. In addition to its sheer graphic beauty, this Edo-period image fascinates with its contrast between the powerfully surging wave and the distant mountain.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh: Wheat Field with Cypresses Oversize Puzzle
37.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. One thousand pieces form one magnificent landscape in our puzzle featuring Vincent van Gogh's (Dutch, 1853-1890)Wheat Field with Cypresses(1889). During his yearlong stay at an asylum in the South of France, Van Gogh decided to paint the lofty cypress trees that towered over the countryside. The artist considered this lively composition, which displays a rich impasto, one of his "best" summer landscape paintings. Today, it's one of the most beloved paintings in The Met collection. Click
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Harney & Sons Botanical Blend Earl Grey Tea
27.95 USD
The Met has partnered with Harney & Sons on this unique, art-inspired tin containing loose-leaf Earl Grey tea and displaying a detail from Strawberry Thief (design registered 1883, printed 1917-23) by William Morris (British, 1834-1896). The inspiration for this kaleidoscopic cotton textile in the Museum's holdings was derived from the designer's country home, Kelmscott Manor, where a community of thieving thrushes would pluck the strawberries from his garden. Today, Strawberry Thief is one of Morris's most celebrated patterns.
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Fat Brain Toys Squigz
40.9 USD
Bright and flexible, these fun pieces stick to each other and to lots of surfaces using the power of suction. They promote explorations of color, shape, balance, and design, as creations seem to defy gravity by hanging upside down or sideways. High-quality silicone rubber won't mark surfaces.
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Fat Brain Toys Tobbles Neo
40.94 USD
Just as artists use color, shape, balance, and texture to create, little ones can discover these concepts through a tower of bright, stackable shapes. The fun, weighted pieces nest or spin on a table, developing hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness in a form guaranteed to get some giggles.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh: Bouquets Double-Sided Puzzle
37.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Assemble two Metbouquetsby Vincentvan Gogh(Dutch, 1853-1890) with this double-sided puzzle. Painted in 1888,Oleandersportrays an arrangement of what Van Goghconsidered life-affirming flowers for the way they bloom "inexhaustibly." They're symbolically presented in a majolica jug next to a copy of Emile Zola's novel La joie de vivre. The reverse side of this puzzle features Irises(1890), one of four radiant springbouquetspainted just before the artist's departure from the asylum in Saint-Rémy. In this still life,Van Goghsought to achieve a "harmonious and soft" effect by placing the "violet" flowers against a "pink background." Owing to his use of fugitive red pigments, however, these colors have since faded with time. Read our blog post
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Inside the Museum Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. The wonders of The Met unfold as you put together this remarkably detailed puzzle. The Museum's galleries and the treasures within are laid out in a delightful illustration that forms a schematic map, providing a fun challenge for all ages. Once assembled, the puzzle becomes a game, as young art lovers pinpoint objects listed around the border, scoring points along the way. Watch the vast scope of The Met collection emerge, piece by piece. Click
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Louis C. Tiffany: Magnolias and Irises Oversize Puzzle
37.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Put together a Met masterwork by Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) and enjoy an art-inspired challenge. Once assembled, this 1,000-piece puzzle depicts the luminous Magnolias and Irises(ca. 1908) stained-glass window in The Met's American Wing, in which delicately rendered irises and magnolia blossoms frame a distant, winding river. This glowing window illustrates the Gilded Age artist's renowned innovations in the art of Favrile glass. A great gift idea, the puzzle offers hours of fun for the whole family. Click
The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met Cloisters Unicorn Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Piece by piece, this puzzle comes together to celebrate a medieval marvel. The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505) is an iconic French and South Netherlandish textile belonging to the famous Unicorn Tapestries at The Met Cloisters. The beloved work depicts a unicorn resting in a garden enclosure beneath a pomegranate tree, enveloped by a millefleurs backdrop of richly symbolic plants. Click
Juratoys US Corp Magnetic World Map Puzzle
87.95 USD
Here's a world of fun for kids of many ages. They can learn about geography and global travel as they arrange the countries of the world on the magnetic board. The wooden map puzzle features 92 pieces and is decorated with lively, colorful illustrations.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages
42.95 USD
Met Museum publications make perfect gifts for art lovers. By Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut This pioneering volume explores concepts of gender, sexuality, and love as portrayed in sculptures, paintings, manuscripts, and personal items to reveal the hidden sexuality and sensuality of medieval art. Using the critical approach known as queer theory, which offers a way to think more expansively about the past, the book interrogates aspects art and culture of the Middle Ages that are often overlooked, such as nonconformist sexual practices, gender variance, and power plays within human and divine relationships. Focused essays on topics and motifs such as the erotics of Saint Sebastian, transgender expression, and the underside of courtly love propose new readings of beloved masterpieces. Featuring more than 40 works of art from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, this volume not only encourages readers to reflect on the ways that sex, gender, and relationships structured medieval lives and identities, but also prompts contemplation of how such attitudes affect our understanding of these subjects in the present day. Melanie Holcomb is Curator and Manager of Collection Strategy, in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nancy Thebaut is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at St. Catherine's College in the University of Oxford.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Dehn: Spring in Central Park Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Enjoy the splendors of spring in New York as you recreate a delightful watercolor by Adolf Dehn (American, 1895-1968). This bucolic scene in The Met collection is one of several park views that Dehn recorded at different seasons during the years he lived in New York City. In addition to the world-famous park, the artist captured scenes from Harlem nightclubs, burlesque theaters, high society, and other lively subjects.
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 Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
57.95 USD
By Allison Rudnick With contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, Max Fraser, and Rachel Mustalish American art in the 1930s-intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own-engaged with the public amid global upheaval. This publication examines the search for artistic identity in the United States from the stock market crash of 1929 that began the Great Depression to the closure of the Works Progress Administration in 1943 with a focus on the unprecedented dissemination of art and ideas brought about by new technology and government programs. During this time of civil, economic, and social unrest, artists transmitted political ideas and propaganda through a wide range of media, including paintings and sculptures, but also journals, prints, textiles, postcards, and other objects that would have been widely collected, experienced, or encountered. Insightful essays discuss but go beyond the era's best-known creators, such as Thomas Hart Benton, Walker Evans, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, to highlight artists who have received little scholarly attention, including women and artists of color as well as designers and illustrators. Emphasizing the contributions of the Black Popular Front and Leftist movements while acknowledging competing visions of the country through the lenses of race, gender, and class, Art for the Millions is a timely look at art in the United States made by and for its people. Allison Rudnick is associate curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Degas: Impressions Double-Sided Puzzle
37.9 USD
An art puzzle inspired by The Met collection. Assemble two vibrant paintings by Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) with this double-sided 1,000-piece puzzle.A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (1865) portrays a lady-probably the wife of Degas's childhood friend Paul Valpinçon-lost in thought beside a bursting bouquet. The unusual composition exemplifies the artist's endeavor to capture his subjects in fleeting, slice-of-life moments. The reverse side of the puzzle features one of Degas's favorite subjects.The Dance Class(1874) depicts ballerinas and their mothers waiting as a dancer executes an attitude for her examination by the ballet master Jules Perrot. Both artworks are now in The Met's European Paintings collection. Click
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
52.95 USD
Pick up an art book from The Met's museum store. By Dita Amory With contributions by Patricia G. Berman, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, Zoe de Bretagne, Silvia A. Centeno, Charlotte Hale, Max Hollein, and Elizabeth Peyton Reevaluating the role of Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) in the history of modernism, this publication highlights pivotal passages in her sixtyyear career-from her training at the Finnish Art Society and remarkable early success to her studies in Paris and St. Ives and eventual return to Finland. There, in relative isolation, she pared down figure paintings and still lifes to near abstraction while introducing greater complexity in her canvases. Long celebrated in Finland and Sweden, Schjerfbeck is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. This book provides fresh insight into her idiosyncratic processes and discusses the series of haunting self-portraits that she painted in her final years, which stand among the twentieth century's most extraordinary selfexaminations. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck introduces an extraordinary Nordic artist who realized her own unique vision with passionate determination, despite personal adversity and her homeland's Dita Amory is Robert Lehman Curator in Charge of the Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. turbulent political history.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Lorna Simpson: Source Notes
52.95 USD
A Met Museum publication is the perfect gift for art lovers. By Lauren Rosati with contributions by Hilton Als, David Breslin, and Adrienne Edwards This revelatory first look at the paintings of Lorna Simpson (b. 1960), an artist who has worked primarily as a photographer for much of her career, examines this significant new development in her practice over the last decade. Simpson's recent works, midway between photography and painting, advance her incisive explorations of gender, race, and history through bodies that emerge and disappear-peering from inky surfaces or dissolving into landscapes of melting ice. Her paintings draw on documentary photographs and images from vintage Ebony and Jet magazines, combining screen-printed collages of found images with washes of colorful ink on fiberglass, wood, or clayboard. The texts in this volume explore how Simpson's fascination with time, memory, and the indeterminacy of representation propels her experiments in works that are both figurative and abstract, portraits and landscapes, paintings and photographs. Lauren Rosati is Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and Research Projects Manager in the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lauren Rosati is Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and Research Projects Manager in the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monet: Bridge and Water Lilies Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Piece by piece, a striking impression comes together as you re-create a masterpiece by Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). A passionate horticulturist, Monet worked on his picturesque water-lily garden at Giverny for years-and depicted it in beloved paintings like Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899)in The Met collection. The evocative work is one of a dozen views of the wooden footbridge over the pond that the Impressionist painter created in the summer of 1899. Click