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Meet Me at The Met: Amor Towles

October 7, 2024
For writer Amor Towles, The Met is not just one museum, but many.
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Nan Madol

October 1, 2002

By Jennifer Wagelie

The highly stratified social system at Nan Madol is the earliest known example of such centralized political power in the western Pacific.
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The Viol

June 1, 2014

By Elizabeth Weinfield

Gainsborough was an avid amateur player, and through his extensive correspondence with composer Carl Friedrich Abel, we learn of his love of the instrument, specifically his desire to “take [my] Viol da Gamba and walk off to some sweet Village when I can print Landskips and enjoy the fag End of Life in quietness and ease.”
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Baaba Maal

March 9, 2020
Senegalese icon Baaba Maal highlights traditional instruments and musical storytelling of the Sahel in this rare acoustic performance in The Met's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
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The armor that breaks away from all established standards

July 3, 2013

By Pierre Terjanian

"I look at armor as hollow, moving sculptures."
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Roman Mold-Blown Glass

October 1, 2003

By Rosemarie Trentinella

The invention of glassblowing led to an enormous increase in the range of shapes and designs that glassworkers could produce, and the mold-blowing process soon developed as an offshoot of free-blowing.
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The Artist Project: Ghada Amer

September 16, 2015
Ghada Amer reflects on an Iranian tile panel, Garden Gathering, in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Cool Books

January 24, 2018

By Tony White

Florence and Herbert Irving Associate Chief Librarian Tony White discusses some of the "cool books" acquired by Thomas J. Watson Library in 2017.
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Islamic Arms and Armor

October 1, 2004

By Department of Arms and Armor

Islamic arms and armor were often decorated with a wide variety of Qur’anic passages and pious invocations, which functioned as expressions of piety, as powerful defenses in the form of talismans, or simply as visually pleasing ornament.
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The Art of the Hajj: From the Camel to Snapchat

November 7, 2016

By Alzahraa K. Ahmed

Curatorial Fellow Alzahraa K. Ahmed explores the role of the camel in the annual Muslim pilgrimage commemorating the new year.
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Plate

Date: 10th–11th century
Accession Number: 25.137

The William Society