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A composite image of a smiling man on the left and a multicolored painting with blue waves at the corner and a blue man fallling out of a yellow boat.
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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
Grey square with ovals within larger ovals.
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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
Painting of green fields.
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Join us to celebrate the exhibition Lineages: Korean Art at The Met
June 7, 2024
Photo showing members of an orchestra in concert. Musicians are seated, dressed in black, and playing string and wind instruments.
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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
Teal bold text that reads 25 years of Korean Art at The Met, over a white and silver background.
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25 Years of Korean Art at The Met
January 24, 2024
Gentlemen standing before vase in glass display.
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"It's not trying to achieve perfection. It's actually trying to achieve imperfection."
January 24, 2024
Artist Mei Lum gestures with her hands as she speaks at Wing on Wo store in front of porcelain ware home items.
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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
New York Buddhist Vihara Foundation monks in prayer
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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
Astor Chinese Garden Court
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Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the Astor Chinese Garden Court.
June 2, 2023
A woman stands wearing an orange sari and red bindi between her eyes. Her arms are held up near her head with her hands making a gesture. Behind her is a whitewall and green plant.
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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