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Protective by Alison Manges Nogueira
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What the hands can tell us in Bellini’s “Madonna and Child”
"I can see a very deep sense of compassion, a mother's desire to protect her child, which she may only be able to do for a short while."
Alison Manges Nogueira
April 17, 2013
Boy Geniuses by Timothy B. Husband
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The teen prodigies behind this groundbreaking 15th century French picture book
"In the center of the book, they're struggling with their compositional arrangements, but as they progress, they become incredibly inventive."
Tim Husband
October 30, 2013
Winners and Losers by Xavier Salomon
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How The Triumph of Marius is about the losers as much as the winners
"Tiepolo's style, and the same is true for opera, is that more is more."
January 31, 2013
A woman in a multicolored dress is seated on a yellow couch, her back to the viewer. In the background at right is a black and white portrait of a mother holding a baby; at left is the room's doorway. The wallpaper and floor is characterized by whimsical and geometric designs, including portraits as part of the wallpaper.
How to Read Portraits

Kathryn Calley Galitz takes a deep dive into
portraiture from Ancient Roman coins to Instagram selfies.

Rachel High
June 6, 2024
Dedicated to Myself by Doug Eklund
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"Girls I Have Known"—An inadvertent self-portrait from a teen boy's 1917 photo book
"The entire album is an exercise in exploring what the pictures mean to him and what people’s relationships to photographs can tell us."
Douglas Eklund
March 13, 2013
Reading Matisse by Rebecca Rabinow
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How to read a Matisse
"There are these gorgeous, sublime images, but there's also a sense of worry."
Rebecca Rabinow
March 27, 2013
Multi colored brown, shades of sculptured Nefertiti head and crown
Fred Wilson's Memories of Egypt
Learn about the artist’s trips and infatuation with Egypt.
Fred Wilson
November 22, 2024
abstract cubist image with a lot of whites, browns, and greys and lines everywhere.
Reevaluating Picasso’s Unfinished Masterpiece
Scholar and curator Anna Jozefacka discusses an unrealized decorative commission by Pablo Picasso intended for a Brooklyn residence.
Isabelle Qian
October 16, 2023
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Mexican Prints at the Vanguard
Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.
Mark McDonald
September 16, 2024
The people standing together in a gallery with hard hanging from the wall, facing them.
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Exhibition Tour—Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

Join Alison Hokanson, Curator in the Department of European Paintings, and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, along with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO, to virtually explore Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature.

February 20