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A Bird Book in Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

November 14, 2018

By Daisy Paul

Senior Library Associate Daisy Paul looks at some books on ornithology in Thomas J. Watson Library.
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Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii

July 10, 2023

By Georgina Kleege

"No place for a blind girl in a city of ash."
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Still Life with Grapes and a Bird: A Remembrance of Things Past

January 9, 2017

By Keith Christiansen

Curator Keith Christiansen discusses a recently acquired work by Crevalcore that is regarded as among the earliest extant independent still lifes in European painting.
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Birds of the Andes

June 1, 2009

By Hélène Bernier

Andean people attentively observed the natural world, and the various roles attributed to birds in religions and artistic representations often seem to derive from their properties and behaviors in nature.
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On Birds and Beauty

August 10, 2016

By Alexandra Gimbel

College Intern Alexandra Gimbel takes a close look at a 15th-century manuscript depicting a scene from the famous Persian poem The Concourse of Birds.
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Spectrum Spotlight: Yaëlle Biro

May 29, 2014

By Lucy Redoglia and Christopher Gorman

Spectrum Co-chairs Lucy Redoglia and Christopher Gorman introduce readers to Yaëlle Biro, assistant curator for the Arts of Africa in the Met's Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
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Gerard David (born about 1455, died 1523)

June 1, 2009

By Jennifer Meagher

David worked in a progressive, even enterprising, mode, casting off his late medieval heritage and proceeding with a certain purity of vision in an age of transition.
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The Original Rock Band

May 26, 2015

By Bradley Strauchen-Scherer

Associate Curator Bradley Strauchen-Scherer explores a rare percussion instrument, the rock harmonicon, which will be featured in the upcoming performance Wild Sound: Glenn Kotche and Third Coast Percussion.
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Ubirr (ca. 40,000?–present)

October 1, 2000

By Eric Kjellgren

The site of Ubirr in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, contains one of the most impressive assemblages of Aboriginal rock painting, ranging from the earliest periods to works created within living memory.
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Joan Miró (1893–1983)

July 1, 2018

By Rachel Boate

Though often pigeonholed as a Surrealist, the Catalan modernist Joan Miró considered his art to be free of any “ism.”
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Bird

Saint James's Factory (British, ca. 1748/49–1760)

Date: ca. 1750–55
Accession Number: 64.101.525a, b

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Bird Head

Date: Date unknown
Accession Number: 1978.412.1504

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Bird pendant

Central Region artist(s)

Date: 300–700 CE
Accession Number: 1979.206.1138

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Bird

Ju Chao (Chinese, ca. 1823–1889)

Accession Number: 1986.267.42

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Bird

Hakusanjin Hokui (Japanese, active ca. 1830–1840)

Accession Number: JP1803

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Bird

In the Style of Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō) (Japanese, 1663–1747)

Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 29.100.945

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Bird

Aldo Casanova (American, San Francisco, California 1929–2014)

Date: 1960
Accession Number: 67.127.5

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Bird

Harold Mallette Dean (American, Spokane, Washington 1907–1975 San Rafael, California)

Date: 1939
Accession Number: 43.47.100

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Bird

Xie Zhiliu (Chinese, 1910–1997)

Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2005.411.31

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Bird

Suzuki Osamu 鈴木冶 (Japanese, 1926–2001)

Date: ca. 1974
Accession Number: 2013.189