An American Chorus

Glenn Adamson Art, Exhibitions, In the Galleries

Visitors who stop by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing will be greeted not only by the exciting, challenging newness of the reinstallation—undertaken to mark the Wing’s hundredth anniversary—but given the opportunity to look beyond surfaces, with the help of two many-voiced audio guides that unravel the foundational myths of American art history object by object.

Best in Glass

Thomas Jayne with Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen Art, Exhibitions, In the Galleries

Two longtime friends and colleagues in their passion for American decorative arts discuss a major acquisition to mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Met’s American Wing.

Mistress of Her Domain

Alexandra Frantischek Rodriguez-Jack Art, Furniture & Decorative Arts, In the Galleries

Emerging during the late Middle Ages, the domestic space known as the estrado kept pace with the ever-increasing reach and buying power of well-to-do households in Spain and the Spanish Americas, becoming a showcase for fineries from the world over. But as a female-coded area, it provided women a degree of autonomy and self-expression not generally possible in Continental or colonial society of the time.