Associate Manager for Library Acquisitions Christina Manzella discusses the many books on hosiery in Watson Library.

One of the most important considerations in garden design is the harmonious arrangement of elements expressing different aspects of yin and yang.

Rock paintings and engravings are Africa’s oldest continuously practiced art form.

Associate Manager for Collection Development and Special Collections Holly Phillips discusses the books Watson Library staff selected as their favorites.

The rock painting of this region is characterized by exquisitely minute detail and complex techniques of shading.

Managing Horticulturist Caleb Leech discusses the more than 30,000 bulbs planted at The Met Cloisters this fall.

Chief librarian Ken Soehner on his favorite depictions of books.

Artist Sheila Hicks reflects on _The Organ of Mary_, a prayer book by Ethiopian scribe Baselyos in this episode of The Artist Project.

Southern African rock paintings and engravings often combine geometric forms with images of humans and animals, in what some scholars have argued represents hallucinatory trance imagery.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present for more than six months beginning in February an exhibition of some 90 Chinese paintings, featuring images of ornamental rocks or landscapes inspired by the fantastic forms of such stones, complemented by more than 30 actual scholars' rocks. Drawn primarily from the Museum's holdings, and supplemented by a select number of loans from private collections, The World of Scholars' Rocks: Gardens, Studios, and Paintings – opening at the Metropolitan Museum on February 1, 2000 – will examine the Chinese taste for strangely shaped rocks during the last 1000 years, tracing through pictorial images as well as actual examples the evolution and transformation of the genre from the 11th to the 20th century.

This exhibition, on view February 1 through August 20, 2000, explored rocks as accoutrements of the scholar's study in China, accompanied by approximately ninety paintings drawn primarily from the Museum's collection.