Spotlight on The Met: What to See Right Now

Art historian and Metropolitan Museum of Art educator Page Knox is your personal guide to this Spring’s extraordinary exhibitions at The Met, highlighting their major themes and important works.  

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has some extraordinary exhibitions on view this Spring, including: “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” the first comprehensive U.S. retrospective of the Renaissance master; the Costume Institute’s 2026 show, “Costume Art,” which inaugurates the museum’s new 12,000 square-foot Conde Nast galleries dedicated to the department and investigates the relationship of the dressed body and human expression; and “The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at the Met,” which focuses on portraiture from 1900-1960 with paintings and sculpture by artists ranging from Pablo Picasso to Alice Neel.  

Page Knox is an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University. She works in a variety of capacities as a contractual lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she gives public gallery talks and lectures in special exhibitions as well as the permanent collection, and teaches classes at the museum. Page also leads groups for art related travel experiences worldwide.