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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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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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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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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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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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Sonic Cloisters: Jlin

July 8, 2021
Experience Jlin's electronic music performance at The Met Cloisters, which emphasizes expression rather than just providing dance floor fodder.
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Jain Sculpture

January 1, 2012

By John Guy

The total absence of garments distinguishes the jinas from the otherwise similar images of Buddhas.
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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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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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Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 2023.735.4a–e

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

Date: ca. 1815–20
Accession Number: 2015.300.176

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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

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Rain

Written and illustrated by Leslie Marmon Silko (American, born Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1948)

Date: 1996
Accession Number: 2008.552.2

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Paulette (French)

Date: 1965–68
Accession Number: 1975.145.21

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Bonnie Cashin (American, Oakland, California 1908–2000 New York)

Date: 1963–64
Accession Number: 1982.40.4a–c

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James Galanos (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1924–2016 West Hollywood, California)

Date: 1980
Accession Number: 1994.602.10a, b