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Three aesthetic principles that were especially important to the design of architectural ornament in the Byzantine, Sasanian, and early Islamic traditions will be highlighted in the exhibition Pattern, Color, Light: Architectural Ornament in the Near East (500–1000), opening July 20 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Every month, MetCollects introduces one work of art recently acquired by the Met. We invite you to have a first look with us.

Summer program of GalLery ARGENTIC: "The Icons Factory" exhibition, books on the website.

The Met Museum’s flagship app—which launched for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch last fall—is now available on Android smartphones.

Press previews for two major exhibitions of American art: Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends (June 30 through October 4), Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River.

Opening on June 20, an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Royal Hunt: Courtly Pursuits in Indian Art, will showcase some 30 paintings dating from the late 16th to the early 20th century along with an array of fine Indian weapons used in the hunt, such as swords, lances, punch daggers, and matchlock guns.

Vor 75 Jahren ist Paul Klee gestorben, und 75 Jahre lang hat die Kunstwelt warten müssen, bis diese Ausstellung Wirklichkeit wird: Paul Klee und Wassily Kandinsky, das Traumpaar der Kunstgeschichte, sind erstmals in einer umfassenden Ausstellung vereint.

Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 30, the exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends will bring together about 90 of these distinctive portraits, including numerous loans from private collections.

(New York, June 8, 2015)—The Amati “King” cello, one of the world’s most renowned musical instruments and the earliest surviving bass instrument of the violin family, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning June 11.