The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 55 include an essay on Buddhist imagery in a medieval Chinese silk painted banner, a discussion of a rare 19th-century keyed guitar, and a contextualization of Ed Ruscha’s books of photographs of L.A. streets and gas stations of the 1960s and ’70s.
![[Man and Woman Seated on Grass, Under Tree], James Van Der Zee American, Gelatin silver print](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/mobile-large/PH9425.jpg)
