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Religion & Spirituality

Religion, spirituality, and faith depicted (and challenged) throughout history and culture.

Image of Cecily Brown in her studio.

Artist Interview—Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid

Go behind the scenes with artist Cecily Brown, who discusses the inspiration and making of Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, the first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York since she made the city her home.

The God from the Black Water

Maya artists mined a rich body of mythological lore to visualize their gods in imaginative ways.

Artist Sholeh Wolpé seated in a garden wearing a black shirt and red scarf

The Long Journey Home

Poet Sholeh Wolpé honors the enduring wisdom of a twelfth-century, Sufi epic.

Detail of the Conference of the Birds folio

Seeking Unity with the Divine

“It’s a world that’s designed to please the eye and please the soul.”
Detail of the Astronomicum Caesareum

Using the Astronomicum Caesareum Book

This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions

Irving Penn's "The Tarot Reader (Bridget Tichenor and Jean Patchett), New York" with two women in stylist black clothing reading tarot cards with a diagram of a hand behind them

Immaterial: The Tarot Reader

“At first glance, this Irving Penn photo looks like it could be its own tarot card.”
17th century etching of two peasant card players and a skeleton representing death

Immaterial: Bonus Episode, Tarot

Grab a cup of tea and join us for a bonus episode on tarot.
Detail of the interior of a 5th-century BC bronze Chinese zhong or bell with a green patina

Immaterial: Metals, Part One

Dive into the magic of iron, bronze, lead, and copper.
Extreme close-up of a carved piece of green jade

Immaterial: Jade

How did a Māori hei tiki find its way halfway across the world to The Met?

Pysanka: The Ukrainian Easter Egg, 1975

Learn the history of the Ukrainian art of pysanka, or decorating eggs, a custom that predates the Christian era.

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