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Murder Goes Mobile at the Met!

May 1, 2012

By Alice W. Schwarz, Masha Turchinsky, and Katherine Abbey

What do Madame X, a murder, and a mobile phone have in common? They are all part of Murder at the Met: An American Art Mystery, the first mobile detective game created by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with Green Door Labs and TourSphere.
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A Recap of the Murder at the Met Teen Event

May 7, 2012

By Nicole

High School Intern Nicole writes about the teen murder mystery event that took place at the Museum on April 20, 2012.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

October 1, 2004

By Elizabeth E. Barker

Though profoundly influenced by landscapists and history painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Turner was an innovator who has been hailed as a forerunner of modernist abstraction.
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Reflections on the Proposed Executive Order

February 14, 2017

By Thomas P. Campbell

Director Thomas P. Campbell comments on the president's recent executive order limiting immigration and how its affects on The Met community.
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"A Buddhist Incense Burner from Gandhara"

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Purchase Order Terms and Conditions

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Wild Dogs Under My Skirt

June 12, 2023

By Tusiata Avia

Pacific poet Tusiata Avia reflects on desire and female empowerment through Samoan tattooing practices
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Cubism Under Dada Scrutiny

December 13, 2018

By Adrian Sudhalter

Leonard A. Lauder Distinguished Scholar Adrian Sudhalter reflects on the achievements of Dada and how Dada and photography critique Cubism.
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Byzantine Art under Islam

October 1, 2004

By Charlotte Appleyard and Annie Montgomery Labatt

Mirroring the political climate, art became a medium of confrontation and cooperation between the two sides.
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The Arts Under Napoleon

Image for England's Warning Piece; Shewing the Supreme and Indispensable Authority of the Laws of God; and the Impiety , and Fatal Consequences of Screening, and Abetting Murder. A Sermon Occasioned by the Untimely Death of Mr. William Allen, the Younger, Who was Most Inhumanly Murdered near his Father's House, by an Arbitrary Military Power, on Tuesday, the 10th of May, 1768. Preached at the Request of his Friends, in the Parish Church of Newington-Butts, and published in compliance withe the demands of the Publick.
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England's Warning Piece; Shewing the Supreme and Indispensable Authority of the Laws of God; and the Impiety , and Fatal Consequences of Screening, and Abetting Murder. A Sermon Occasioned by the Untimely Death of Mr. William Allen, the Younger, Who was Most Inhumanly Murdered near his Father's House, by an Arbitrary Military Power, on Tuesday, the 10th of May, 1768. Preached at the Request of his Friends, in the Parish Church of Newington-Butts, and published in compliance withe the demands of the Publick.

John Free (British, 1711–1791)

Date: 1768
Accession Number: 24.90.1905(2)

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Murder (L'Assassinat)

Félix Vallotton (Swiss, Lausanne 1865–1925 Paris)

Date: 1893
Accession Number: SL.6.2019.10.1

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Murder of Edith Cavell

George Bellows (American, Columbus, Ohio 1882–1925 New York)

Date: 1918
Accession Number: 1971.514.3

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Nazis Murder Jews

Alice Neel (American, Merion Square, Pennsylvania 1900–1984 New York)

Date: 1936
Accession Number: SL.5.2021.54.1

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[Automobile Murder Scene]

Unknown (American)

Date: ca. 1935
Accession Number: 2008.127

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The Murder of Polonius

Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris)

Date: 1834–43
Accession Number: 22.56.12

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Human Head Cake Box Murder

Weegee (American (born Austria-Hungary), Złoczów (Zolochiv, Ukraine) 1899–1968 New York)

Date: ca. 1940
Accession Number: 1987.1100.92

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Considering Murder (Auf Mord Bedacht)

Ernst Barlach (German, Wedel 1870–1938 Rostock)

Date: 1912
Accession Number: 63.502.2(10)

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[Scene of Murder and Decapitation]

Unknown (French)

Date: ca. 1870
Accession Number: 2000.332

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[Outline of a Murder Victim]

Weegee (American (born Austria-Hungary), Złoczów (Zolochiv, Ukraine) 1899–1968 New York)

Date: 1942
Accession Number: 1978.616.6