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Power & Privilege

These articles address how art can create and challenge power and privilege.

A view of the Medieval Sculpture Hall, with a blue plinth supporting sculptures from many different civilizations

Crossroads Explores Cultural Connections across the Globe

 In a new set of installations, The Met spotlights universal themes.

Max Hollein Mar 10, 2020
Oil painting of an seated alchemist reading in his workshop with two assistants

Alchemy, Science, and Innovations in the Decorative Arts

Early modern rulers used scientific objects to express magnificence—but their "science" was more expansive than ours.

Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie Feb 24, 2020
A massive green diamond, cut in a pear shape and set in an ornate silver and diamond ornament

Steadfast and Pure: How the "Dresden Green" Diamond Became a Symbol of Saxon Rule

At 41 carats, the gemstone is the largest known natural green diamond, and is on view now at The Met.

Wolfram Koeppe and Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie Jan 28, 2020

Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Kent Monkman’s Alter Ego

“I wanted a persona to really reflect our point of view at the time that colonial policies were beginning.”
Kent Monkman Dec 23, 2019
A artist Kent Monkman stands in The Met's Great Hall, looking around

Kent Monkman Reverses Art History’s Colonial Gaze

The celebrated Cree artist arrives at The Met—along with his gender-bending, time-travelling, shape-shifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Randall Griffey Dec 17, 2019
Poet Wendy S. Walters in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts galleries

Poet Wendy S. Walters confronts the power dynamics at play in creating and viewing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved!

Dec 13, 2019
A bronze figure sits in the Metropolitan facade

Who are Wangechi Mutu’s NewOnes?

“I’ve chosen to stick with the subject of the female body as a platform for what we feel about ourselves as humans.”
Wangechi Mutu Nov 11, 2019
A bronze figure sits in the Metropolitan facade

Science Fiction, Migrancy, and Wangechi Mutu’s NewOnes

Mutu muses on her sculptures’ relationship to migrancy and science fiction.
Wangechi Mutu Oct 30, 2019

Mutu inaugurates The Met’s annual facade commission with The NewOnes, will free Us.

Wangechi Mutu Sep 13, 2019
Black-and-white photograph of fairy-tale castle perched on a mountain

Stolen Treasure: Art and Archives at Neuschwanstein Castle

How James Rorimer, future director of The Met, visited a fairy-tale castle in Germany and discovered a trove of paperwork documenting Nazi art looting in World War II.

James Moske Jun 3, 2019
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