Assistant Secretary and Senior Associate Counsel Jeffrey Blair accounts for his group's travels to monasteries and cathedrals in Sumela, Turkey, and Batumi, Georgia.
All relics bestowed honor and privileges upon the possessor, and monasteries and cathedrals sought to hold the most prestigious. Some relics were even stolen from one church, only to find a new home in another.
Press Officer Meryl Cates recaps the New York premiere of The Colorado, which was presented at The Met with a live score performed by Roomful of Teeth, Glenn Kotche, and Jeffrey Zeigler.
The image of the head or face can have the capacity to instruct, but in certain forms it can possess a special power to protect, to heal, or even do harm.
In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, Associate Curator Jayson Dobney highlights an Irish piano from the Museum's collection—the only extant stringed keyboard instrument from the Dublin workshop of Ferdinand Weber.
The Missions Héliographiques were intended to aid the Paris-based commission in determining the nature and urgency of the preservation and restoration of work required at historic sites throughout France.
Consider how artists convey personality in nonfigural portraits and the relationship between visual and verbal expression by looking at a painting by Charles Demuth in the Museum's Modern and Contemporary galleries and through a portrait-making activity in the classroom.
