"How do you measure dedication?" Barbara Boehm on Simon Bening’s _Book of Hours_.

Artist Dustin Yellin reflects on ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals in this episode of The Artist Project.

Peek inside two similar Bonnie Cashin evening skirts and compare the details of their construction.

Associate Curator Jayson Dobney and guitarist Ernie Jackson introduce readers to nineteenth-century African-American guitar virtuoso Justin Holland.

By 1850, the prospect of bronze casting in the United States had taken on added symbolism—a medium that reflected America’s growing confidence and ambition as a world power while at the same time proclaiming its artistic independence from European sculptural models and materials.

While it is difficult to establish how the method was developed or introduced to the region, it is clear that West African sculptors were casting brass with this method for several hundred years prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese explorers along the coast in 1484.

"This poem echoes the dual structure of the inner and outer figures, but in the spirit of the work, transforms it into something unexpected." — Hannah Sanghee Park

With Mesoamerica, Costa Rica is one of the two regions in which jade was extensively carved in Precolumbian times.

Living Buddhas preside over the four directions, residing in celestial Pure Lands where a worshipper could hope to be reborn. These Buddhas and their many emanations personify ideals like compassion, abundance, health, and protection.

Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellow Alzahraa K. Ahmed summarizes her recent investigation into the production dates of two Coptic codices in the Department of Islamic Art's collection.

As a living art, fashion is open to multiple readings, and blog.mode: addressing fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 18, 2007, through April 13, 2008, presents approximately 65 costumes and accessories dating from the 18th century to the present — all recent Metropolitan Museum acquisitions — and invites the public to share their reactions via a blog on the Museum's website. Over the duration of the exhibition, which will take place in The Costume Institute galleries, individual costumes and accessories will be posted on the blog periodically with commentary from curators Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, and, where relevant, from contemporary designers.

AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion, opening on May 3, 2006, will present a wide range of works by British designers in The Metropolitan Museum's English Period Rooms – The Annie Laurie Aitken Galleries. A pendant to the acclaimed 2004 Costume Institute exhibition Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century, AngloMania will examine ideals, stereotypes, and representations of Englishness by juxtaposing historical costume with late 20th- and early 21st-century fashions.