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.
![[Young Woman Cradling "Positively NO TRUST" Sign], James Van Der Zee American, Gelatin silver print](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/mobile-large/DP-13894-012.jpg)
![[Self-Portrait with Gaynella Greenlee], James Van Der Zee American, Gelatin silver print](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/mobile-large/DP-26361-045_HRcrop.jpg)
![[Funeral Portrait: Man in Casket, with Inserted "Goin' Home" Sheet Music], James Van Der Zee American, Gelatin silver print](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/mobile-large/DP-22120-005_webcrop.jpg)