Metropolitan Museum of Art Archive
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TEDxMet: Icons—Streaming Live Tomorrow
Posted on October 18, 2013Where can you go tomorrow, Saturday, October 19th, to see dance legend Bill T. Jones, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and neurobiologist Eric Kandel, internationally-acclaimed illustrator Maira Kalman, distinguished critic Nicolai Ourousoff, […] -
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Notes from the Field: The Medium is the Message
Posted on September 27, 2013View the New York Times ‘Interwoven Globe’ Exhibition Slide Show Follow @yaleARTbooks Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 tells a fascinating history of global textile design through the intertwined narratives […] -
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Van Gogh at Work
Posted on August 8, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Van Gogh struggled with volume. When at the age of 28 he decided to become an artist, he took to copying contours of nude models from a drawing […] -
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A Peek Inside German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600
Posted on July 13, 2013Passing through the art section of a bookstore, you might find yourself arrested by the haughty gaze of Hermann von Wedigh III. The young merchant sits confidently at a table […] -
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Impossible Outfit: PUNK Edition
Posted on June 7, 2013Dear Paper Doll, My 35th high school reunion is approaching. Though you’d hardly know it to look at me now – I’m an anesthesiologist (I claim this career choice was […] -
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Matisse: In Search of True Painting
Posted on January 22, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks The exhibition Matisse: In Search of True Painting explores Matisse’s practice of producing pairs of paintings, and the ways in which this practice influenced his development as artist. […] -
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Building the Cloisters
Posted on December 21, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks At first glance The Cloisters might be seen as an anachronism to its northern Manhattan neighborhood. Nestled within Fort Tryon Park (opened 1935), sitting above a grid of […] -
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The Thanksgiving (Playing) Table
Posted on November 21, 2012After the turkey has been carved, served, and eaten with thanks and all of the sides, after the pies have been admired and devoured, Thanksgiving Day calls for an extended […] -
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Rinpa Aesthetics and the Art of Poetry
Posted on November 12, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Caroline Hayes— Upon visiting two exhibitions currently on display in New York City on the subject of the Japanese Rinpa aesthetic—at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Designing Nature: […]