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Decoding a Maya Rain God Sculpture from Chichen Itza

March 31, 2016

By James Doyle

Assistant Curator James Doyle highlights a Maya limestone head in The Met collection excavated from Chichen Itza, and examines artistic attributes of the object that aid in identifying which deity it depicts.
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Spotlight: Facing Pain

January 6, 2022

By Denise Allen and Jared O’Garro-Moore PhD

A conversation on focus, mindfulness, and what art can teach us about experiencing pain.
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The Power of Hair

January 18, 2017

By Johanna Obenda

Johanna Obenda, twelve-month Education intern, takes readers on a virtual tour of hair in The Met collection and invites visitors to join her for Intern Insights—The Power of Hair on Tuesday, February 21.
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Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It’s a Museum

November 9, 2023

By Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz goes behind-the-scenes to The Met’s Paintings Conservation Lab to see Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer.
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Following the Trail of (Ginger)bread Crumbs: Seurat, the Corvi Circus, and the Gingerbread Fair

April 12, 2017

By Laura D. Corey

Research Assistant Laura D. Corey traces the history of the Corvi Circus around the time that Georges Seurat painted his evocative depiction of the traveling troupe, Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque).
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Artist Interview Series: Ren Jian

December 11, 2013
Ren Jian discusses his work in _Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China._
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Fair Game

June 18

By Raymond Lei

A glimpse inside Watson’s acquisitions from the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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Look Again: European Paintings—Rethinking Spain & The Spanish Americas

August 27, 2024

By David Pullins and José Luis Lazarte Luna

Join curator David Pullins and conservator Jose Luis Lazarte Luna as they discuss the new approach to Spanish painting of the “Golden Age”.
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Mina Loy: From Rogue to Rags

November 15, 2022

By Dawn Ades

Mina Loy, better known as a poet than an artist, was born in London and led a peripatetic life, settling variously in Paris, Florence, and New York. This lecture explores the ways her works of art, poetry, and other writings interrelate.
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The Globe-trotting Coin

August 4, 2015

By Fatima Quraishi

Hagop Kevorkian Fellow Fatima Quraishi examines how Islamic leaders used currency as symbols of their faith and the global stature of their empires.
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Rain

Leslie Marmon Silko (American, born Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1948)

Date: 1996
Accession Number: 2016.587.29

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Rain Clouds

Sir George Clausen (British, London 1852–1944 Newbury, Berkshire)

Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 2023.554

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Rain god pendant

Mexica artist(s)

Date: 1325–1521 CE
Accession Number: 1979.206.1035

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Rain god mask

Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s)

Date: 1325–1521 CE
Accession Number: 1979.206.1062

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Rain

B. J. O. Nordfeldt (American (born Sweden), Tullstorp 1878–1955 Henderson, Texas)

Date: 1907–09
Accession Number: 1974.601.121

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The Moqui Prayer for Rain

Hermon Atkins MacNeil (American, Everett, Massachusetts 1866–1947 Queens, New York)

Date: 1895–96; cast ca. 1897
Accession Number: 1978.513.6

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Helmet with Rain Protector and Crests

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 2023.735.4a–e

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Lingering Rain over Half the Village

Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō (Japanese, 1745–1820)

Date: ca. 1815–20
Accession Number: 2015.300.176

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Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei)

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Date: ca. 1766
Accession Number: JP698

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Tar

Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.1319