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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
Traditional Indian Paining of gray elephtant.
Take a closer look at the Asian elephant through the eyes of Indian court painters
Navina Najat Haidar
June 14, 2024
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Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.
Mark McDonald
September 16, 2024
Sky with puffy blue and white clouds. A light blue sky peeks through the top right corner of the image.
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Giving form to a feeling.
June 18, 2024
Black shaded drawing of a black boat sailing with threee people.
How have printmakers in the United States addressed a long history of inundation and the social inequities it exacerbates?
Juan Gabriel Ramirez Bolívar
July 29, 2024
Dream Logic by Joseph Scheier Dolberg
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“This is a guy who’s asking the question, ‘Who am I, and what am I supposed to do with my life?’”
Joseph Scheier-Dolberg
November 12, 2013
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