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"You have a sense of an independent sculpture."
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The rare tapestry that changed how others were made

October 2, 2013

By Thomas P. Campbell

"Faded as it is, damaged as it is, it still almost moves me to tears that it survives."
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How Liang Kai paints with metaphor

October 3, 2013

By Shi-yee Liu

"He’s playing on the idea of the deceptive nature of what can be seen on the surface."
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Why do some call this table seductive?

October 9, 2013

By Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide

"This furniture allowed you to move in certain ways that might be seductive."
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"It also tells us a lot about human nature, about this constant and eternal pursuit of beauty."
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12 paintings by Shitao that take you on a journey | Art, Explained

November 12, 2013

By Joseph Scheier-Dolberg

“This is a guy who’s asking the question, ‘Who am I, and what am I supposed to do with my life?’”
Image for How Edgar Degas captured the gangly, awkward movements of a young dancer
"So much about dance vocabulary has to do with line."
Image for "Accident" is a print about printmaking and Rauschenberg embracing the process | Art, Explained
"It’s just the start of what we now know as the media and the barrage of information that infiltrates our daily life."
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Artist Interview Series: Ren Jian

December 11, 2013
Ren Jian discusses his work in _Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China._
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Artist Interview Series: Sun Xun

December 11, 2013
Sun Xun discusses his work in _Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China._
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Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)

...numerous masterpieces of woodblock printing, many of which are nearly impossible to find in such fine condition today...

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Mishneh Torah

Master of the Barbo Missal

"...The Met takes a major step in presenting masterpieces of Judaica..."

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Électricité

Man Ray

This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer...

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Hendrick Avercamp

"...His finished drawings are much rarer, and the present one is among his best of an imaginary landscape..."

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Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

...these very pistols spectacularly confirmed that the French were then unsurpassed in their mastery of the gunmaker's art...

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Small Trades

Irving Penn

"The resulting portraits–landmarks in the history of twentieth century photography–are a brilliant update of some 300 years’ interest by artists in producing pictures of small tradesmen, or petit métiers."

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Saint Sebastian

Master of the Furies

When this compelling, transformative statuette of Saint Sebastian became available, it was an opportunity not to be missed, as the Museum has nothing comparable...

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This is one of the most elegant and best-preserved porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity...

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Cartier

The journey of the emerald in this brooch from Colombia, where it originated in its natural state, to seventeenth-century India and back to New York underscores the abiding and universal attraction of great gems.

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Ceremonial ewer



With the daring amalgamation of the whimsical, exotic, and macabre, the sculptural details on this ewer brilliantly show off the distinctive Portuguese interpretation of Renaissance style.

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