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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Museum Nesting Dolls
39.95 USD
Give an artful gift from The Met. This set of five nesting dolls celebrates the diversity of The Met collection. Each doll represents a different curatorial area with reference to a treasure in the Museum's holdings. From the Asian art collection is a dazzling late 18th-early 19th-century Japanese robe called an uchikake, embroidered with peonies, plum blossoms, and butterflies; a work of 18th-century French costume armor in the Classical style recalls the magnificence of arms and armor across cultures and through time; a late 19th-century child's robe attributed to India exemplifies the rich artisanship found throughout the Islamic art galleries; a Middle Kingdom estate figure (ca. 1981-1975 B. C.) decorated with a colorful feather-pattern dress embodies the rich symbolism of ancient Egyptian art; and a timeless Inca tunic (1460-1626) with a striking checkerboard motif evokes the ancient American splendors in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Iznik Garden Tea Towel
29.95 USD
The tranquil scene featured on our tea towel comes from a painted stonepaste dish (ca. 1575-90) in The Met collection. Crafted in the Turkish town of Iznik, which was renowned for its pottery workshops, this exceptional dish is adorned with colorful carnations, tulips, and hyacinths, as well as two small birds subtly perched amid the tangle. These flowers, sometimes in combination with birds, were pervasive decorative elements on 16th- and 17th-century Iznik creations.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art How to Read African Textiles
37.95 USD
Met Museum publications are perfect gifts for art lovers. By Christine Giuntini and Jenny Peruski Historically, handwoven cloth and clothing made across the African continent have been labor-intensive creations deeply embedded in local and regional value systems. These fabrics, frequently adapted to communal and individual needs, serve to clothe the body, divide architectural space, protect physical and spiritual well-being, and convey wealth and authority. This volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series features forty masterworks of African fiber arts, from a dynamic nineteenth-century interior hanging from Sierra Leone to a dreamlike textile canvas by a contemporary Malagasy artist. Authors Christine Giuntini and Jenny Peruski explore the complex histories of production, consumption, and exchange attached to these extraordinary works; contextualize long-standing and recently embraced techniques and materials; and offer readers new ways toappreciate Africa's diverse textile traditions. Christine Giuntini is Conservator and Jenny Peruski is Assistant Curator, Arts of Africa, both in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Kandinsky Small Worlds I Water Bottle
45.95 USD
An art water bottle inspired by The Met collection. Quench your thirst with a graphic burst of color and energy. The motif on our water bottle references a woodcut print entitled Small Worlds I(1922) from the portfolio Small Worlds(1922) by Vasily Kandinsky (French, b. Russia, 1866-1944). Kandinsky was an early and vigorous advocate for abstraction in art, considering the style a kind of spiritual language. He created this portfolio while teaching at the Bauhaus, the influential German art and design school founded in 1919.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Peeters Bouquet of Flowers Tea Towel
29.95 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Lend a touch of drama to your kitchen with our tea towel featuring an ambitious arrangement painted by the remarkable Clara Peeters (Flemish, ca. 1587-after 1636). A Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1612), housed at The Met, showcases the artist's keen eye for detail-in the way of reflective dewdrops, little insect bites, and drooping petals evocative of transience and decay-and reveals the close connection between botanical illustration and still-life painting, both of which became popular during the Scientific Revolution. Peeters was a founding figure in the history of European still-life painting, an especially attractive genre to women artists who weren't permitted to study nude models.
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Abrams Vogue & The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute
77.95 USD
Met Gala Fashion, Coffee Table Book By Hamish Bowles and Chloe Malle Introduction by Anna Wintour Foreword by Max Hollein An updated and expanded edition, covering the past five years of the Met Costume Institute's exhibitions and galas through the lens of Vogue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's annual fashion exhibition is the most prestigious of its kind, featuring subjects that both reflect the zeitgeist and contribute to its creation. Each exhibition-from 2005's Chanel to 2011's Alexander Mc Queen: Savage Beauty and 2012's Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations-creates a provocative and engaging narrative drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors. This expanded edition includes material from 2015's China: Through the Looking Glass, 2018's Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (the most visited exhibition in the Museum's history), and 2019's Camp: Notes on Fashion. The show's opening-night gala, produced in collaboration with Vogue magazine, is regularly referred to as the party of the year, and draws a glamorous A-list crowd, drawing an unrivaled mix of Hollywood fashion. This updated edition of Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute once again invites you into the stunning spectacle that dazzles when fashion and art meet at The Met. Hamish Bowles is the international editor at large of Vogue and has worked for more than two decades at the magazine, where he has written extensively on style and contemporary culture. Chloe Malle is a freelance writer and Vogue contributing editor.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monet Sunflowers Water Bottle
45.95 USD
An art water bottle inspired by The Met collection. This summer-perfect water bottle pays tribute to Claude Monet's (French, 1840-1926)Bouquet of Sunflowers(1881), a joyous still life in The Met collection. Monet exhibited the painting at the 1882 Impressionist exhibition to critical acclaim. It was likewise admired by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), who wrote in 1888: "Gauguin was telling me the other day-that he'd seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase, very fine. But-he likes mine better. I'm not of that opinion."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art William Morris Jasmine Rectangular Frame
52.95 USD
Our lacquer frame design is embellished with delightful details from Jasmine, a woodblock-printed wallpaper created in 1872 by Morris & Co. William Morris (British, 1834-1896) was a prolific designer of lavish botanical wallpapers and fabrics often based on English flora.
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.
BEYOND 123 Deluxe Musical Bells Set
197.95 USD
Music is made simple and fun with this entertaining set. No more broken strings, and no tuning required. Simply pat the bells for vibrant and colorful notes! This set includes eight bells arranged in a classic, one octave C major scale. Because C major is one of the most recognizable scales, it is both an easy and intuitive place for young learners to begin exploring the musical world. Also included are eight handpicked double-sided song cards (total 16 songs), with easy-to-play, color-coded notes, integrating both visual and auditory learning together.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Peeters Bouquet of Flowers Women's Lambswool Sweater - 14K Gold Plate - Small
132.95 USD
A lambswool sweater inspired by The Met collection. Reimagined across the front and back of this soft and sumptuous lambswool sweater is a remarkable painting by Clara Peeters (Flemish, ca. 1587-after 1636). A Bouquet of Flowers(ca. 1612), now in The Met collection, showcases the artist's keen eye for detail and reveals the connection between botanical illustration and still-life painting during the Scientific Revolution. Peeters was a founding figure in the history of European still-life painting, an especially attractive genre to women artists, who weren't permitted to study nude models. Read our blog post
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Mini Museum Art Kit
32.94 USD
Gifts for art lovers. Made for young artists age 6 and up, this kids' art set comes with a watercolor paint set and brush, a pad of paper, and a small easel with a preprinted canvas design featuring The Met facade and other New York City landmarks for inspiration. Perfect for the little art lover in your life, this mini art kit makes a thoughtful gift.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh Irises Folding Umbrella
47.95 USD
Our floral folding umbrella borrows its blooms from a radiant spring bouquet by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890). In May of 1890, just before his departure from the asylum in Saint-Rémy, the artist painted four exceptional still lifes, including the exuberant Irises (1890) in The Met collection. Van Gogh sought to achieve a "harmonious and soft" effect by placing the "violet" flowers against a "pink background." Owing to his use of fugitive red pigments, these colors have since faded to blue and white. Read our blog post
The Metropolitan Museum of Art William Morris Pomegranate Women's Cotton Short Pajamas - 14K Gold Plate - Small/Medium
76.95 USD
Unique gifts for her. These cozy cotton pajamas reimagine Fruit(or Pomegranate) (ca. 1866), a block-printed wallpaper in The Met collection. This lush pattern was created by William Morris (British, 1834-1896), one of the most influential designers of the Victorian era as the leading figure of the British Arts and Crafts movement. Morris believed that beauty, imagination, and order were the necessary components of a strong design, and derived profound inspiration from the natural world.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art How to Read Portraits
37.9 USD
By Kathryn Calley Galitz Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. This intimate genre sheds light on the subjects' and makers' politics, relationships, aspirations, and insecurities. Featuring more than fifty works across time and cultures, from the lifelike Faiyum funerary masks of ancient Roman Egypt to Pablo Picasso's and Marsden Hartley's abstractions to likenesses imagined by contemporary artists, this publication probes the notion of what constitutes a portrait, beyond mere verisimilitude. Bestselling author Kathryn Calley Galitz illuminates how artists through the ages have exploited the genre to reveal character and convey power and status; how artists as varied as Rembrandt and Cindy Sherman embraced artifice and roleplaying to explore identity; and how the term "portraiture" encompasses a wider variety of works than typically thought. This reexamination of a deceptively familiar genre provides fascinating ideas about what these images can tell us about the sitter, the artist, the culture in which they lived, and ourselves. Kathryn Calley Galitz, an art historian specializing in European art, works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she has been both an educator and a curator of major international exhibitions.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Favorite Cat Apron
45.95 USD
Art-inspired gifts for the home. Nathaniel Currier's (American, 1813-1888) favorite feline features on our 100% cotton apron with an adjustable neck strap. The Favorite Cat (1838-48) is a beloved hand-colored lithograph in The Met collection. Currier achieved lasting fame as coprincipal of Currier & Ives (American, 1857-1907), a celebrated New York printmaking firm renowned for their wildly popular portrayals of historical events, political satires, and pleasant scenes from everyday life.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Harney & Sons Still Life Chamomile
27.95 USD
The Met has partnered with Harney & Sons on this unique, art-inspired tin containing loose chamomile leaves and displaying a detail from Vincent van Gogh's (Dutch, 1853-1890) Irises (1890), a celebrated still life in The Met collection. Enjoy a peaceful moment courtesy of calming chamomile, evocative of Van Gogh's beloved bouquet in The Met collection. For this extraordinary composition, the artist sought to achieve a "harmonious and soft" effect by placing the "violet" flowers against a "pink background," though the red pigments he employed have since faded.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monet Morning on the Seine Silk Pocket Square
35.95 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. This serene scene pays tribute to Claude Monet's (French, 1840-1926) Morning on the Seine near Giverny (1897), a tranquil landscape in The Met collection. The Museum's painting belongs to Monet's Morning on the Seine series, which he started in 1896 and finished in 1897. After patiently searching for prime views along the river, Monet painted these pictures from a boat that he converted into a floating studio. He would venture out at dawn to paint the changing effects of light as the sun came up. He then lined up the canvases on easels in his studio to complete them together as a series.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Kandinsky Small Words VII Water Bottle
45.95 USD
An art water bottle inspired by The Met collection. Quench your thirst with a graphic burst of color and energy. The motif on our water bottle references a woodcut print entitled Small Worlds VII(1922) from the portfolio Small Worlds(1922) by Vasily Kandinsky (French, b. Russia, 1866-1944). Kandinsky was an early and vigorous advocate for abstraction in art, considering the style a kind of spiritual language. He created this portfolio while teaching at the Bauhaus, the influential German art and design school founded in 1919.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Dehn Spring in Central Park Folding Umbrella
47.95 USD
Embrace those April showers with a classic springtime scene from The Met collection. Our folding umbrella showcases Adolf Dehn's (American, 1895-1968) Spring in Central Park (1941), depicting a verdant Sheep Meadow with midtown Manhattan landmarks-including the Hampshire House, Essex House, and the Empire State Building-rising in the distance. This bucolic watercolor is one of several seasonal vistas Dehn painted of the New York skyline and Central Park.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Man Ray: When Objects Dream Double-Sided Tote
27.95 USD
Take home a Museum tote bag. We're pleased to present this double-sided tote in celebration of the exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream at The Met. Man Ray (American, 1890-1976) was a visionary artist, known for his radical experiments that pushed the limits of photography, painting, sculpture, and film. In 1921 he pioneered what would become known as the rayograph, a photograph made without a camera. In Man Ray's hands, recognizable subjects turned into wonderfully mysterious compositions. © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters Millefleurs Neckerchief
37.95 USD
An art scarf inspired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The French term "millefleurs," which translates to "thousand flowers," refers to a densely packed background of plants and blossoms. The close tangle of flowering plants on this lush neckerchief comes from the millefleurs backdrop in The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505), a remarkable French and South Netherlandish textile at The Met Cloisters. This beloved medieval masterwork may have been created as a single image, though it's considered one of the seven so-called Unicorn Tapestries, which are among the most impressive extant artworks from the late Middle Ages. The unicorn likely signifies tamed love, as the pomegranate tree to which the creature is loosely tethered symbolizes marriage and fertility. Many of the plants represented, such as the wild orchid, bistort, and thistle, served as medieval fertility aids.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Johnson Three Children Silk Neckerchief
37.95 USD
An art scarf inspired by The Met collection. This colorful neckerchief features William Henry Johnson's (American, 1901-1970) triple portrait of fabulously dressed young ladies, whose vibrant hats inform the patterns on the border. After living in Europe for more than a decade, Johnson returned to the US in 1938 and created a number of images portraying Black subjects. Johnson's aesthetic shifted dramatically over the course of his career-he was influenced by the likes of Expressionism, African sculpture, and folk art, as is evident in the varied styles of his works. Click
The Metropolitan Museum of Art William Morris Pomegranate Women's Cotton Short Pajamas - 14K Gold Plate - Large/X-Large
76.95 USD
Unique gifts for her. These cozy cotton pajamas reimagine Fruit(or Pomegranate) (ca. 1866), a block-printed wallpaper in The Met collection. This lush pattern was created by William Morris (British, 1834-1896), one of the most influential designers of the Victorian era as the leading figure of the British Arts and Crafts movement. Morris believed that beauty, imagination, and order were the necessary components of a strong design, and derived profound inspiration from the natural world.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monet Water Lilies Silk Neckerchief
37.95 USD
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Dedicated to painting en plein air, Monet created an extensive garden on his property at Giverny, including a water lily pond, which inspired a series of paintings in 1899; thereafter the subject dominated his art. Our colorful neckerchief features a detail adapted from Monet's enchanting Water Lilies, Night Effect. Produced in cooperation with the Musé Marmottan Monet, Paris.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unicorn in a Garden Tee - 14K Gold Plate - Large
42.95 USD
An art tee only from The Met Even among the rare treasures at The Met Cloisters, The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505) stands out as an exceptional highlight of the Museum's collection. A whimsical feat of craftsman and botanical accuracy, this medieval French and South Netherlandish masterpiece features on our tee. The original is one of seven luxuriously woven hangings collectively known as the Unicorn Tapestries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unicorn in a Garden Tee - 14K Gold Plate - Medium
42.95 USD
An art tee only from The Met Even among the rare treasures at The Met Cloisters, The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505) stands out as an exceptional highlight of the Museum's collection. A whimsical feat of craftsman and botanical accuracy, this medieval French and South Netherlandish masterpiece features on our tee. The original is one of seven luxuriously woven hangings collectively known as the Unicorn Tapestries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unicorn in a Garden Tee - 14K Gold Plate - X-Large
42.95 USD
An art tee only from The Met Even among the rare treasures at The Met Cloisters, The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505) stands out as an exceptional highlight of the Museum's collection. A whimsical feat of craftsman and botanical accuracy, this medieval French and South Netherlandish masterpiece features on our tee. The original is one of seven luxuriously woven hangings collectively known as the Unicorn Tapestries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unicorn in a Garden Tee - 14K Gold Plate - Small
42.95 USD
An art tee only from The Met Even among the rare treasures at The Met Cloisters, The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505) stands out as an exceptional highlight of the Museum's collection. A whimsical feat of craftsman and botanical accuracy, this medieval French and South Netherlandish masterpiece features on our tee. The original is one of seven luxuriously woven hangings collectively known as the Unicorn Tapestries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monet Bridge and Water Lilies Silk Neckerchief
37.95 USD
In the summer of 1899 Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) painted twelve views of the wooden footbridge over the pond, including Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899) in the Museum's collection. Our sumptuous neckerchief design is adapted from a detail in Monet's luminous work.