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European Paintings, Immaterial: Trash, and Fran Lebowitz [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Look Again: European Paintings—Rethinking Spain & The Spanish Americas]( [Look Again: European Paintings—Rethinking Spain & The Spanish Americas]( Join curator David Pullins and conservator Jose Luis Lazarte Luna as they discuss the new approach to Spanish painting of the “Golden Age” in the renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, [Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800](. [Watch now →]( [Immaterial: Trash]( [Immaterial: Trash]( For most of us, we throw our garbage to the curb, and it disappears from our lives. But to some, that’s just the beginning of trash’s story. In this episode, we follow two people who seek the truth in trash—an archaeologist who excavates ancient rubbish in Turkmenistan and an artist who spotlights the people responsible for making trash vanish.[Listen now →]( [Returning Home ]( [Returning Home]( Writer and scholar Sven Spieker considers how student graffiti in Southeastern European elementary schools inspired [The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj, Abetare](. [Learn more →]( [Aged to Perfection]( [Aged to Perfection]( Honoring fashion elders in The Costume Institute Library. [Learn more →]( [Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It's a Museum]( [Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It's a Museum]( In case you missed it: Fran Lebowitz goes behind-the-scenes to The Met’s Paintings Conservation Lab to see Rembrandt’s [Aristotle with a Bust of Homer]([(1653)](. 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[Donate now.]( Comments are welcome at [metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org](mailto:MetMuseum_Newsletter@metmuseum.org). Images: Jun Takahashi (Japanese, born 1969) for Undercover (Japanese, founded 1990). Dress, spring/summer 2024. Reinforced 3-D-printed clear resin containing purple silk plain-weave roses, green silk velvet leaves, and yellow and purple silk plain-weave butterflies overlaid with yellow nylon tulle and trimmed with yellow embossed leather. Courtesy Undercover. Photography © Nick Knight, 2024 | Everett L. Warner (American, 1877–1963). New York from a Seaplane, ca. 1919. Pastel on paper adhered to board, 14 x 11 5/8 in. (35.6 x 29.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Dorothy Schwartz Gift, 2015 (2015.4) ©Everett Warner Archives | Pitcher, Tiffany & Co. 1878. Silver, copper, brass, gold-silver alloy, copper-gold alloy. Private Collection, New York | Kwon Young-woo (1926–2013). Untitled, 1984. Ink and gouache on hanji (Korean paper), 88 3/16 x 66 15/16 in. (224 x 170 cm). Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul. © Kwon Young-woo Estate. Image courtesy of Leeum Museum of Art. | Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (French, 1749–1803). Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788), 1785. Oil on canvas. 83 x 59 1/2 in. (210.8 x 151.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953 (53.225.5) | Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783). Hanshan and Shide (detail), Edo period (1615–1868), early 1770s. Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper. Image: 55 × 23 3/16 in.(139.7 × 58.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2022 (2022.432.16a, b)