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editorial

Textiles in Lyon

October 3, 2013

By Daphne Birdsey

I am currently traveling as a Museum representative on a Travel with the Met program Dukes, Popes & Painters: Lyon to Arles aboard MS AmaDagio. This morning we arrived in Lyon to spend the day before we begin a seven-night cruise along the Saône and Rhône rivers.
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editorial

Non Finito

March 6, 2013

By Karl

Teen Advisory Group Member Karl invites readers to apply Matisse's "non finito" technique to aspects of their own lives.
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Essay

Zen Buddhism

October 1, 2002

By Department of Asian Art

Zen teaches that enlightenment is achieved through the profound realization that one is already an enlightened being.
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editorial

Caravaggio and Depicting Darkness at Noon

April 24, 2017

By Keith Christiansen

Curator Keith Christiansen considers whether the pervasive darkness in two of Caravaggio's late works should be viewed as metaphorical or as an expression of the artist's tortured life.
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editorial

The Met's Amazing Teen Programs

June 6, 2014

By Audrey

Audrey, a former member of the Teen Advisory Group, reflects on how her experience in the Met's teen programs has helped her in her college art history studies.
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Essay

Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.)

October 1, 2000

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

Finely worked to a resilient consistency from local clays and gravel, the millennia-long endurance of [Nok sculpture] is a testament to the technical ability of their makers.
Press Release

Leon Levinstein's Rarely Seen New York City Street Photographs On View at Metropolitan Museum

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Essay

The Rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela

September 1, 2014

By Kristen Windmuller-Luna

The Lalibela churches take their form, placement, and orientation from both geological features and structures within the complex.
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Welcome to #ArbusMetSquad: A Teen Photographer Takeover

August 16, 2016

By Ariel Greene and Megan Tyrer

Education Programs Associate Ariel Greene and Undergraduate Intern Megan Tyrer invite teens to tune in for blog posts by teen photographers in the #ArbusMetSquad series.
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Essay

Georges Seurat (1859–1891) and Neo-Impressionism

October 1, 2004

By Dita Amory

Artists of the Neo-Impressionist circle renounced the random spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured painting technique grounded in science and the study of optics.
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Art

66 signs of neon

Noah Purifoy (American, 1917–2004)

Date: 1966
Accession Number: NB198.5.J84 J86 1966 Quarto

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Art

Neon Structure for the Ninth Milan Triennial (Struttura al Neon per la IX Triennale di Milano)

Lucio Fontana (Italian, 1899–1968)

Date: 1951/2019
Accession Number: SL.8.2019.23.14

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Art

Neon Birds

Chryssa (American (born Greece), Athens 1933–2013)

Date: 1969
Accession Number: 1981.492a-e

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Art

That's All

Chryssa (American (born Greece), Athens 1933–2013)

Date: 1970–73
Accession Number: 1977.468

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Art

Two Stories with Porch (for Robert Cobuzio)

Donna Dennis (American, born Springfield, Ohio 1942)

Date: 1977–79
Accession Number: 2024.570

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Art

Nefertiti (Black Power)

Awol Erizku (American, born Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1988)

Date: 2018
Accession Number: RCE.044

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Art

Photo Bar

Sadie Barnette (American, born Oakland, California, 1986)

Date: 2022
Accession Number: 2023.360a–k

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Art

["Beer Town" Neon Sign]

Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)

Date: 1973–74
Accession Number: 2019.585.72

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Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold

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January 23–April 14, 2019

Press

Now on View: Exhibition at The Met Reflects on Photographic Constructions of Memory

December 18, 2023–September 15, 2024