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Sounds of The Cloisters: A New Refectory Bell

December 24, 2015

By Peter Barnet

Senior Curator Peter Barnet details the history of the recently acquired, rare medieval refectory bell at The Cloisters.

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The "Number One Bill Clinton" Tenor Saxophone

June 30, 2015

By Deborah Check Reeves

Guest blogger Deborah Check Reeves reflects on the 1994 donation by President Bill Clinton of an L.A. Sax Company Presidential Model saxophone, currently on view in Celebrating Sax: Instruments and Innovation, to the National Music Museum.

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Now on View: Drawings by Bill Traylor, Pioneer of Outsider Art, in The American Wing

March 13, 2015

By Sylvia Yount

Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of The American Wing, announces a new installation of works from the late 1930s by Bill Traylor, the pioneer of so-called outsider art.

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La Belle Époque, 1983—Featuring Diana Vreeland and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

May 1, 2020

This outrageous and slyly self-aware documentary revisits The Costume Institute’s 1982 exhibition _La Belle Époque_, from the decadence in fin-de-siècle Paris through the global pandemonium of World War I.

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The Artist Project: Barry X Ball

June 6, 2016

Artist Barry X Ball reflects on an Egyptian fragment of a queen’s face in this episode of The Artist Project.

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La Belle Époque

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Plastic, Paint, and Movie Magic: A Close Look at Disney Animation Cels

January 12, 2022

By Rachel Mustalish

The animated films of Disney are some of the best known worldwide. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns several of the animation cels and drawings that were a fundamental part of the filmmaking process.

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What Does One Do with a Wall Full of Feathers?

October 31, 2013

By Sage

Teen Advisory Group Member Sage considers why the Wari peoples of ancient Peru may have created the elaborate feather panels currently on view in the exhibition Feathered Walls: Hangings from Ancient Peru.

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