Meet Mäda! 🌸 And bring home her look on @Roblox after a trip to The Met. ⁣ ⁣ Did You Know: Artist Gustav Klimt sketched nine-year-old Mäda Primavesi many times but in the end chose to show her in this powerful, active standing pose, with one elbow thrust out—perhaps because it suited her personality best.⁣ ⁣ Visit the Museum to explore our galleries as never before—download the Replica app to collect exclusive wearable Roblox items, like Mäda’s beaded floral dress! Tap the link in bio to download #TheMetReplica, powered by Verizon.

Calling all wee-sized art and science lovers! 🎨 🔬 ❤️ ⁣ Join us this Saturday, September 9, to celebrate the opening of The Met's 81st Street Studio—a new space for art, science, and discovery for kids ages 3–11 and their families.⁣ ⁣ Visit this exciting space to explore art making, science learning, music, storytelling, games, and much more with your young ones.⁣ ⁣ The 81st Street Studio will be open during Museum hours (closing at 5 pm on Friday and Saturday evenings) and is free to children and their caregivers—no Museum admission required.⁣ ⁣ Tap the link in bio to learn more. #LearnPlayRepeat #STEAM #STEAMLearning

Hello darkness, my old friend 🫠 🕰️ 🎹 Embrace the end of Daylight Saving Time with a journey back in time—and don’t forget to set your clocks back!   🎨 Veit Langenbucher (1587-1631); Samuel Bidermann (German, 1540-1622). Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, ca. 1625. Ebony, gliding, brass, silver gilt, gilt brass, iron, various wood and metals, wire, parchment and leather. @met_esda

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” — Emily Brontë ⁣ We're kinda biased, but The Met is a pretty lovely place to spend your fall—and the leaf-peeping is absolutely top notch. 🍂 ⁣ ⁣ 📸 @janisgcecil

Whether you’re bringing your frenemy or bestie, make sure to sign up in the virtual queue! 🤳🎨 Visit “Manet/Degas” through January 7, 2024. #ManetDegas

As part of our #MetAccess program, every month we invite Disabled and Deaf artists to respond to works in The Met collection that spark curiosity or inspiration. ⁣ ⁣ Today, Derek Coulombe (@derekcoulombe.jpeg) reflects on this sculpture in The Met's Greek and Roman collection:⁣ ⁣ "I approach this little statuette, Bronze Athlete, as a person with Tourette’s Syndrome. In my case, this means that I am constantly forced into making movements with my body that I do not intend to carry out, and that I produce these movements in cycles of repetition. ⁣ ⁣ In a kind of parallel (albeit of their own volition), athletes are people who elect to train their bodies through repeated physical acts. By practicing movements, gestures, and actions that are refined through a long process of reiteration, and in training themselves in these ways, they change the way their bodies participate in the world. ⁣ ⁣ I like to use this comparison to imagine that Bronze Athlete and I may have something in common. I like that Bronze Athlete could be a friend moving alongside me—that me and this little figurine may both be bodies wrapped up in a system of movements that seem to play out forever."⁣ ⁣ ⁣📲 Follow the hashtag #MetAccess to read previous months' posts.⁣ ⁣ 🎨 Bronze athlete, ca. 450 BCE. Classical. Greek. On view in Gallery 153. @metgreekandroman

Musician Cécile McLorin Salvant meets medieval surroundings at The Met Cloisters 🎶
  Join us online for the virtual premiere of three @metlivearts performances by vocalist @CecileMcLorinSalvant, filmed at the @metcloisters and drawing inspiration from the beloved Unicorn Tapestries.
  Tune in on November 1, 8, and 15 to watch all three. Tap the link in bio to learn more.

We see your spooky spooky skeletons and raise you Dante’s “Inferno” 🔥😱 Happy Halloween! Some artworks are meant to soothe and elicit gentle contemplation—and then there is art that is meant to confront, the kind that stops you in your tracks, like this dramatic painting by Franz von Stuck. Across the massive painting referencing Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno”—a medieval epic of a journey through hell—are six human figures trapped in a barren, fiery landscape. Some are tormented by a grinning demon at left and a serpent at right. Each figure wrestles uniquely with eternal damnation. Although Stuck employed traditional symbols of the underworld—a snake, a demon, and a flaming pit—the dissonant colors and stylized, exaggerated poses are strikingly modern. If you’re a fan of Auguste Rodin fan, you might notice that Stuck’s imagery was likely inspired by Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell,”particularly the figure of “The Thinker.” When “Inferno” debuted in an exhibition of contemporary German art at The Met in 1909, critics praised its "sovereign brutality." The picture bolstered Stuck’s reputation as a visionary artist unafraid to explore the dark side of the psyche. This one always spooks us—what do you think is the scariest work in The Met collection? 🎨 Franz von Stuck (German, 1863–1928). Inferno, 1908. Oil on canvas. On view in Gallery 829. @meteuropeanpaintings

Gourd vibes only 🎃✨ Orange you glad the pumpkins are out? Stop by The Met to see our annual fall display of flowers and pumpkins in the Great Hall. Wishing you a grand and ghoulish Hallo-week, dear art-lovers. 👻

“I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.” — Edgar Allan Poe 😱 ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ National Cat Day + spooky season = Mr. Poe⁣ ⁣⁣ In December of 1893, artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was commissioned to illustrate a new American edition of Poe's "Tales of Mystery and the Imagination." Beardsley accepted, writing that the material offered "an admirable chance of picture making."⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Responding to Poe's "The Black Cat" in this spine-chilling illustration, Beardsley shows the ferocious one-eyed feline that the narrator mistakenly walled up with the corpse of his wife. Revealed when the wall is broken through, the furious animal sits on the dead woman’s upright head, which Beardsley represents with masterful economy, using black lines against a white ground. In contrast, the background wall and cat are almost completely black, apart from a circular patch of white fur on the chest. ⁣⁣Spooky! ⁣⁣ ✍️ Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, 1872–1898). The Black Cat, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895-96, 1894. Pen, brush and India ink over graphite.

“The principle of the shop window — of look at something more like a glimpse — and the idea of flotsam and jetsam came together and gave me the idea for the niches.” — Nairy Baghramian Go behind the scenes with artist #NairyBaghramian to explore the inspiration and making of The Met’s 2023 Facade Commission, “Scratching the Back.” See it on view on the Museum’s facade through May 28, 2024. #MetFacade #MetNairyBaghramian

Me emerging from my cozy fall blanket fort to take on spooky weekend mayhem 🕷️🕷️🕷️⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ In this etching, American artist Otto Henry Bacher depicts the mythological figure of Arachne, a mortal woman who challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving contest and, as a result, was transformed into a spider. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Arachne’s hair merges with the strands of the web, while a spider drops down along the left margin.⁣⁣..can you spot it? ⁣ ⁣ Stay safe and spooky, friends. 👻 ⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ✍️ Otto Henry Bacher (American, 1856–1909). Arachne, 1884. Etching, printed in brown ink, with plate tone. @metdrawingsandprints