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Curiosity Carries Within

April 3, 2013

By Evelin

Teen Advisory Group Member Evelin discusses Henri Matisse's Seated Nude Asleep and an aspect of the work that particularly intrigues her.

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Connections

August 20, 2012

By Jimmy, Emily R., and Audrey

Teen Advisory Group Members Jimmy, Emily, and Audrey share a series of their photographs and explain their personal connections to objects in the galleries.

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When Mummies Were the Life of the Party

October 29, 2015

By Joanne Pillsbury

Curator Joanne Pillsbury explores a Peruvian funerary model on view in the exhibition Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas.

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Recent Acquisition: PRS Guitar

January 13, 2014

By Jayson Kerr Dobney

Associate Curator Jayson Dobney discusses the Museum's recent acquisition of a custom-made electric guitar made by PRS Guitars.

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Now on View: A New Discovery by an Old Master

November 22, 2016

By Adam Eaker

Assistant Curator Adam Eaker explores a recently conserved work by Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens that is on loan to The Met through December 16, 2016.

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Salzburg Marionette Theatre's Intimate World

November 3, 2014

By Meryl Cates

Met Museum Presents Press Officer Meryl Cates welcomes the Salzburg Marionette Theatre back to the Met for a series of performances that reimagines Debussy's La Boîte à Joujoux (The Toy Box).

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Curator Interview: Picasso's Seated Harlequin

August 10, 2010

By Jennette Mullaney

Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, spoke with Associate Email Marketing Manager Jennette Mullaney about Seated Harlequin, a masterpiece painted by Picasso when he was just nineteen years old.

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A Sculpture for Reflection on Annunciation Day

March 22, 2019

By Maryan Ainsworth

Just in time for the Christian observance of the Annunciation on March 25, a beautiful, serene sculpture of the Virgin Mary is on view in gallery 640 at The Met Fifth Avenue.

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The Miraculous Survival of Fatimid Jewelry

February 23, 2018

By Pac Pobric

Digital Editor Pac Pobric introduces a new Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essay on the defining characteristics of Fatimid jewelry.

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The St. Tropez of South America

March 19, 2014

By Lisa Krassner

Chief Membership Officer Lisa Krassner highlights two breathtaking properties the group visited during a recent trip to Uruguay: the Atchugarry Foundation and Casapueblo.

Art

Japanese Illustrated Books

Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)

...numerous masterpieces of woodblock printing, many of which are nearly impossible to find in such fine condition today...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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Mishneh Torah

Master of the Barbo Missal

"...The Met takes a major step in presenting masterpieces of Judaica..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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Électricité

Man Ray

This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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A Wooded River Landscape with a Church and Figures

Hendrick Avercamp

"...His finished drawings are much rarer, and the present one is among his best of an imaginary landscape..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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Nineteenth-Century Exhibition Pistols

Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

...these very pistols spectacularly confirmed that the French were then unsurpassed in their mastery of the gunmaker's art...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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Small Trades

Irving Penn

"The resulting portraits–landmarks in the history of twentieth century photography–are a brilliant update of some 300 years’ interest by artists in producing pictures of small tradesmen, or petit métiers."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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Saint Sebastian

Master of the Furies

When this compelling, transformative statuette of Saint Sebastian became available, it was an opportunity not to be missed, as the Museum has nothing comparable...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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Porphyry vessel with bearded masks

This is one of the most elegant and best-preserved porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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Brooch with Carved Emeralds and Sapphires

Cartier

The journey of the emerald in this brooch from Colombia, where it originated in its natural state, to seventeenth-century India and back to New York underscores the abiding and universal attraction of great gems.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

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Ceremonial ewer

With the daring amalgamation of the whimsical, exotic, and macabre, the sculptural details on this ewer brilliantly show off the distinctive Portuguese interpretation of Renaissance style.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.