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editorial

Own a Van Gogh in Animal Crossing, with The Met's New Share Tool

April 27, 2020

By The Digital Editors

Here's how to download Met artworks into the game.

Press Release

Spirited Creatures: Animal Representations in Chinese Silk and Lacquer

editorial

Jean d'Alluye: Conservation in the Public Eye

May 15, 2014

By Lucretia Kargère

Conservator Lucretia Kargère describes her public conservation of the tomb effigy of Jean d'Alluye at The Cloisters.

Publication

"A Crusader's Sword: Concerning the Effigy of Jean d'Alluye"

Essay

Great Serpent Mound

October 1, 2002

By Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Effigy mounds, earthworks in the shape of animals and birds, were raised in North America in areas that now correspond to parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio.

Essay

Cutting Through the Fat: Animal Species and Food Processing Techniques of Residues Found in Nineteenth-Century Edgefield Pottery

January 20, 2023

By Julie Arslanoglu

Following analysis of food sources in stoneware vessels from the Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, an innovative approach probes the composition of trace food residues through close collaboration of The Met’s Department of Scientific Research and the University of Bordeaux through ARCHE.

Upcoming Exhibition

The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am

September 12–May 2026

For the 2025 Genesis Facade Commission, Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado), a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will create four figurative sculptures—works that he refers to as ancestral…

Essay

Mal’ta (ca. 20,000 B.C.)

October 1, 2000

By Laura Anne Tedesco

The site of Mal’ta, for which the culture is named, is composed of a series of subterranean houses made of large animal bones and reindeer antler.

Essay

Figural Representation in Islamic Art

October 1, 2001

By Department of Islamic Art

As with other forms of Islamic ornamentation, artists freely adapted and stylized basic human and animal forms, giving rise to a great variety of figural-based designs.