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“The sea is a universal realm, and it's a place that we don't really understand.”
H. Barbara Weinberg
June 5, 2013
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Join curator Adam Eaker and conservator Dorothy Mahon as they discuss the restoration of Rembrandt’s Artistotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653, now on view in the renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.
July 31, 2024
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In 1232, Shuja' ibn Man'a al-Mausili completed a magnificent brass ewer inlaid with copper and silver, very likely for the local ruler of Mosul, Iraq.
June 27, 2016
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Go behind the scenes with artist Petrit Halilaj, who discusses with curator Iria Candela the inspiration and making of his 2024 Roof Garden Commission: Abetare.
May 7, 2024
The magnificent volute-krater on loan from Ferrara.
Chiara Pizzirani and Delphine Tonglet
July 30, 2024
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"The central problem of Western civilization is reduced to one guy who’s got to puzzle it out for himself."
August 21, 2013
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"One wonders what will an audience in a hundred years think of it."
October 23, 2013
January 24, 2013
"I see vibrant thoughts as clouds and feel volatile emotions as waves."
Kurt Behrendt
October 7, 2024
Scholar and curator Anna Jozefacka discusses an unrealized decorative commission by Pablo Picasso intended for a Brooklyn residence.
Isabelle Qian
October 16, 2023