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Pride

Celebrate Pride at The Met with this selection of articles and videos that tell stories of art and artists from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Pride flag being draped over a large public staircase

Out in the Stacks

Honoring LGBTQIA+ artists with Watson Library's new index.
Daisy Paul June 26

Catalyst Quartet: “Bassline Fabulous” with Machine Dazzle

In December 2022, as part of their Met residency, Catalyst Quartet presented an immersive dive into Bach’s behemoth Goldberg Variations.

June 10
Black-and-white poster with a bold statistic about AIDS, an image of a baby doll, and accompanying text about HIV/AIDS in babies.

Queer Activist Art

Gran Fury’s weapons of mass production.
Jasmine Kuylenstierna June 7
Portrait of woman dressed in heavy garment and fur. Her expression is calm, while her arm rests on the wooden table.

At the Reception

For me the photograph speaks to optical illusion, to ambiguity, to the blurring of immediate impressions and assumptions.
Carl Phillips March 12
Multi object sculpture, outside of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

To Provoke and Transgress

The writer Manijeh Moradian reflects on the unruly forms of Nairy Baghramian's facade commission.
Manijeh Moradian Dec 22, 2023
Portrait of Gertrude Stein

Picasso on Stein

Learn how Picasso’s defining portrait of Gertrude Stein helped usher in a new era of modern art and literature.
Francesca Wade Nov 22, 2023
Painting of a woman in a white dress playing the harp while a lapdog sleeps at her feet in an adorned dressing room

Coxcombs and Macaronis: Fashion, Gender, and the Canon of Art History

How artists perceived to have “feminine” traits have faced exclusion in the history of European painting.
Adam Eaker Jul 21, 2023

Lo Tatou Seiana: Our Flowering, Our Time

Dan Taulapapa McMullin muses on colonialism, queer mythologies, and activism in the Pacific Islands.
Dan Taulapapa McMullin Jun 21, 2023
Detail of the pamphlet for the Act Up Art Box, with the participating artists names and places where one could find the objects on view

A Short History of the ACT UP Art Box

"ACT UP felt like a collision of creativity, political fervor, and justifiable anger..."
Peter Antony Jun 7, 2023
The Met’s Cristofori Piano

Inventing the Piano

How Cristofori’s invention gave a new voice to the harpsichord
Jayson Kerr Dobney and Anthony Roth Costanzo Sep 7, 2022
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