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Multi colored blue, pink, green, purple, and blue waves swilr around a cirlce with four people in the middle in different colors.
Tenzing Rigdol on Biography of a Thought
"I see vibrant thoughts as clouds and feel volatile emotions as waves."
Kurt Behrendt
October 7, 2024
Composite image of black man wearing all black with a b lack hat and glasses, next to the great hall of The Met Museum with the lights lighting the ceiling
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Meet the Artist—The Great Hall Commission Jacolby Satterwhite
Go behind the scenes with artist Jacolby Satterwhite, who discusses his artistic process and inspiration for his 2023 multi-channel video installation in The Met’s Great Hall.
October 19, 2023
Identity by Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide
Video
Why do some call this table seductive?
"This furniture allowed you to move in certain ways that might be seductive."
Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide
October 9, 2013
layers of pick shaped colors on top of each other almost looking like a flower with orange creeping out from the top left corner.
Color and Form
Learn about the multifaceted ways postwar artists engaged with color through a selection of vibrant prints.
Jennifer Farrell
November 17, 2023
View of Great Hall by daylight
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The Met's Great Hall was built to inspire awe and a sense of arrival
"It serves the kind of function that railroads used to serve: masses of people efficiently being moved from place to place."
November 6, 2013
Photo image of The Great Hall of the Met, with hanging calligraphy paintings
The Monumental Calligraphy of Tong Yang-Tze
Learn how the artist’s Great Hall Commission utilizes the idiosyncrasy of calligraphy to foster a broad, inclusive dialogue.
Lesley Ma
February 28
Bundle of Emotions by Yaelle Biro
Video
What this object from a lost society tells us about a whole civilization
"It has all these apertures almost as if it is breathing and hearing what is around it."
Yaëlle Biro
July 17, 2013
She by Jason Sun
Video
What this Tang dynasty figure represents about human beauty and its moment in time
"It also tells us a lot about human nature, about this constant and eternal pursuit of beauty."
Zhixin Jason Sun
October 16, 2013
Traditional Indian Paining of gray elephtant.
Elephant Soul, Indian Brush
Take a closer look at the Asian elephant through the eyes of Indian court painters
Navina Najat Haidar
June 14, 2024
Marble Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure
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Why this Dionysus statue is the centerpiece of the Roman court
"One wonders what will an audience in a hundred years think of it."
October 23, 2013