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Bogotá's Powerful Museo del Oro

December 10, 2014

By Jackie Terrassa

Managing Museum Educator Jackie Terrassa recalls her favorite aspects of Bogotá's majestic Museo del Oro.
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Guns, Paper, and Stains: Preserving History through Interdepartmental Collaboration

February 13, 2015

By Angela Campbell

Assistant Conservator Angela Campbell explains the conservation decisions taken before two prints were displayed in the exhibition Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions 2003–2014.
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Licked: The Academic Ideal

June 3, 2013

By Kristen

Teen Advisory Group Member Kristen imagines a conversation between the French academic painters and the Impressionists at the Paris Salon of 1863.
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Symposium—Charting Cubism across Central and Eastern Europe, Part 2

February 14, 2015

By Nicholas Sawicki

Lehigh University Assistant Professor Nicholas Sawicki discusses the Czech reception of synthetic Cubism in the works of Picasso, Braque, and Kramář.
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Cory Arcangel on the Harpsichord

March 25, 2015
Artist Cory Archangel reflects on the harpsichord in this episode of The Artist Project.
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George Condo on Claude Monet's The Path through the Irises

March 25, 2015
Artist George Condo reflects on Claude Monet's The Path through the Irises in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Lisa Yuskavage on Édouard Vuillard's The Green Interior

March 25, 2015
Artist Lisa Yuskavage reflects on Édouard Vuillard's The Green Interior in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Mickalene Thomas on Seydou Keïta

March 25, 2015
Artist Mickalene Thomas reflects on the photographs of Seydou Keïta in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Sneakers in the Stacks

November 1, 2017

By William Blueher

Metadata and Collections Librarian William Blueher discovers some unexpected books on basketball courts and sneakers in Thomas J. Watson Library.
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Tapestries Report All the News That's Fit to Weave

March 25, 2014

By Sarah Mallory

In her latest #tapestrytuesday post, Research Assistant Sarah Mallory describes the tapestry's use as a communicative social medium—long before the advent of Facebook and Twitter.
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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.