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The Artist Project: Arlene Shechet

December 7, 2015

Artist Arlene Shechet reflects on a bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer in this episode of The Artist Project.

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"The Secret of Édouard Baldus Revealed"

October 26, 2010

By Malcolm Daniel

"The secret of Édouard Baldus"—that was the subject line of an email I received recently. I rolled my eyes. "Right," I said to myself, "the secret of Édouard Baldus." I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Édouard Baldus (1813–1889), the nineteenth-century French photographer of landscape and architecture, and had the enormous pleasure of introducing him to the general public through a beautiful show and catalogue in 1994. Ever since, I've been "Mr. Baldus."

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Cécile McLorin Salvant at The Met Cloisters: D’un feu secret

November 13, 2023

In July 2023 MetLiveArts welcomed three-time GRAMMY®-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for an exclusive recording session in the Unicorn Tapestries Room at The Met Cloisters

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The Met Breuer Fact Sheet

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Former Incarnations: The Secret Lives of Objects in Treasures from India

November 19, 2014

By Courtney A. Stewart

Senior Research Assistant Courtney A. Stewart discusses the fascinating histories of several pieces of jewelry on view in the exhibition Treasures from India: Jewels from The Al-Thani Collection.

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Is an inscription in Hebrew letters on this crossbow a secret code?

April 3, 2013

By Dirk H. Breiding

"Art history is very much like detective work, and if you’re lucky there’s even a mystery to be solved."

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Keith L. Prewitt, Former Deputy Director for the United States Secret Service, Named Chief Security Officer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Daguerreian Era and Early American Photography on Paper, 1839–60

October 1, 2004

By Department of Photographs

The daguerreotype process, employing a polished silver-plated sheet of copper, was the dominant form of photography for the first twenty years of picture making in the United States.

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