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Mexican Prints, New Podcast on Time, 'The Harvesters', and more! [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Mexican Prints at The Vanguard]( [Mexican Prints at the Vanguard]( In this richly illustrated essay by curator Mark McDonald, explore a selection of extraordinary prints currently on view in [Mexican Prints at the Vanguard](. [Learn more →]( [Immaterial: Time]( [Immaterial: Time]( If a painting on canvas rips or a marble sculpture shatters to pieces, art conservators are trained to repair it, but artworks that unfold over time—like videos and software based works—are made using technologies that are constantly being updated. If the "canvas" or medium an artwork is made on keeps shifting, how do art conservators protect these works from obsolescence?[Listen now →]( [The World, and That's All]( [The World, and That's All]( Former Met security guard Patrick Bringley, author of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, explains why Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s iconic painting, [The Harvesters]( (1565), remains one of his favorite works to contemplate.[Read more →]( [The Preservation of Time]( [The Preservation of Time]( Learn more about the conservation of artist Tacita Dean’s “salt book,” [The Book End of Time]( (2013), which prompts deeper considerations on human narratives of geological and cosmic time.[Read more →]( [The Art of the Copyist]( [The Art of the Copyist]( In case you missed it: Discover the pleasure of sustained looking alongside contemporary artist Jas Knight as he copies Diego Velázquez’s [Juan de Pareja]( (1650) in our galleries. 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Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. [Donate now.]( Comments are welcome at [metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org](mailto:MetMuseum_Newsletter@metmuseum.org). Images: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, ca. 1525–1569). [The Harvesters](, 1565. Oil on wood, 46 7/8 x 63 3/4 in. (119 x 162 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1919 (19.164) | Gabriel Fernández Ledesma (Mexican, 1900–1983). Poster advertising an exhibition of work by young Mexican artists held in the Retiro Park, Madrid (detail), 1929. Woodcut, letterpress. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, 1930 (30.88.1) | Portrait of Lee Bul © Lee Bul. Photo: Yoon Hyung-moon. Courtesy: HO-AM Foundation. | Chemchok Heruka Mandala (detail), Tibet, second half 12th century, mineral pigments on cotton, 38 × 32 in. (96.5 × 81.3 cm), Michael J. and Beata McCormick Collection | Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780). Trade Card for Périer, Ironmonger, 1767. Black chalk, pen and black and brown inks, brush and gray and brown wash. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Stephen A. Geiger, in memory of his parents, Howard W. Geiger and Mildred K. Geiger, and in honor of his brother, Julian R. Geiger, 2022 (PG.Geiger.2022.9) | Paul Rudolph (American, 1918–1997). Perspective section drawing of the Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, 1958. School of Architecture, Yale University, Memorabilia (RU 925). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. | Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Raising of Lazarus (detail), 1310–11. Tempera and gold on panel. Kimbell Art Museum, 1975