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Go behind the scenes with artist Tenzing Rigdol as he discusses his installation, Biography of a Thought, for the exhibition Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet, on view through January 12, 2025.
September 20, 2024

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Join scholar Joan Kee to follow the unexpected twists and turns of Korean art from the end of the 19th century until 1970.
September 20, 2024

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Join us to celebrate the exhibition Lineages: Korean Art at The Met
June 7, 2024

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The Met commissioned a new work from composer Tan Dun, “Symphony of Colors: Terracotta,” based on music from his opera The First Emperor.
May 21, 2024

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25 Years of Korean Art at The Met
January 24, 2024

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"It's not trying to achieve perfection. It's actually trying to achieve imperfection."
January 24, 2024

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Meet Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence Mei Lum, founder of the W.O.W. Project and the fifth-generation owner of her family's century-old porcelain business, the oldest operating store in Chinatown.
Mei Lum
January 11, 2024

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This video features Buddhist monks from the New York Buddhist Vihara Foundation chanting a blessing of suttas (sutras), the spoken word of the Buddha as preserved in the Sri Lankan tradition.
July 28, 2023

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Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the Astor Chinese Garden Court.
June 2, 2023

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In “Naino,” a courtyard within a scholar’s garden in the city of Suzhou, China inspires a narrative exploration of a poem by Kabir, a 15th-century Indian mystic claimed by both Hindu and Islamic traditions. The poem is worldly and spiritual as it employs intimate, erotic speech that is typical to both the Sufi way of Islam and the Bhakti tradition of Hinduism. The speaker invites the beloved into their eyes, and from there into their inner landscape. The ideal here is to become one with the divine by taking in its magnificent vision.
May 22, 2023