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Promising Teen Artists Get the Spotlight at the Metropolitan Museum
Former recipients of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards include Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Kay WalkingStick, and John Baldessari.
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Indian Art Collection of Howard Hodgkin May Find a Home at the Met, Despite Provenance Concerns
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford turned down the complete collection, valued at £7.2 million, due to concerns over the works’ provenance.
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Google Doodle Celebrates the Metropolitan Museum’s 151st Anniversary
The GIF features rotating samples from the Met’s permanent collection, including the Unicorn Tapestries and a 19th-century guitar.
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Museums Respond to and Reflect on Atlanta Hate Crime
“This is a frightening escalation of the racial violence targeting Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) across the country since the pandemic began,” says a statement by the Museum of Chinese in America, one of many institutions to respond to the murders.
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Roam the Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum via Augmented Reality
The museum collaborated with Verizon to launch the Met Unframed, which allows you to navigate through a dozen digitally rendered galleries and view nearly 50 works from the Met’s collection.
Art
The Trove of Hanukkah Treasures In New York City's Public Collections
A bright pink silicon menorah in the Jewish Museum, a pair of Hanukkah hymns from a medieval prayer book in the New York Public Library, and other gems.
Art
The Met Museum Misses the Mark in Recounting Its Own Complicated History
Making the Met, the anniversary exhibition chronicling the museum’s first 150 years, botched several opportunities to truly reckon with its role in defining who is and isn’t included in dominant narratives of art history.
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New Documents in Purdue Case May Pressure Institutions to Rename Sackler-funded Spaces
“Interoffice documents paint a dark picture of profit for the family at the expense of human life,” the artist-activist group P.A.I.N. told Hyperallergic.
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An Augmented Reality App Connects the Life of an Opioid Victim to the Met Museum’s Sackler Wing
The Mariah App uses augmented reality technology to transform the Met’s Sackler Wing into a memorial site for Mariah Lotti and others who have lost their lives to the opioid crisis.
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A Jacob Lawrence Painting, Thought Missing for Decades, Was in a NYC Apartment All Along
A recent visitor to the Metropolitan Museum’s current Jacob Lawrence exhibition knew of an artwork by Lawrence in a neighbor’s collection that he suspected might belong to the Struggle series.
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Praying for Life
Sahelian forms of artistry are a manifestation, or a visual translation, of an overarching ontology. Its plastic language can be understood as the language of a philosophy of the force of life.
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A Parade of Cakes Fit for Versailles
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles is a look behind the scenes at the Met as an international team of chefs prepare an elaborate feast.