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A Glorious Gift of European Artworks Is on Display at the Metropolitan Museum
Selections from the trove donated by the late Jayne Wrightsman includes stunning works by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Jean François de Troy, and Eugène Delacroix.
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What Cookie Monster Can Teach Us About Art
From art critic, to poet, to journalist, the Sesame Street character is always hungry for cookies — and in pursuit of beauty.
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Learn How to Volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 1,400 volunteers, but it's looking for more.
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Hundreds March from American Museum of Natural History to Metropolitan Museum for Anti-Columbus Day Tour
For its fourth annual Anti-Columbus Day Tour, Decolonize This Place reiterated its demands that AMNH remove its controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt
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The Defiant Spirit of Wangechi Mutu’s Caryatids at the Metropolitan Museum
In reflecting on Mutu’s recent commission for the Met’s façade one morning, I realized that her sculptures make space for excellences and joys that dominant Eurocentric histories have ignored and excluded.
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Decolonizing Western Narratives of Modern Art
The Met Breuer mounts recent acquisitions from Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, West Asia, and North Africa alongside mainstays of postwar American art, sketching a potential reorientation of art history.
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The Most Downloaded Artworks From the Getty and Met Museum
Both the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have created online databases that bring thousands of artworks to screens across the globe. Here's what most folks download.
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Testosterone Rules at the Metropolitan Museum's Rock 'N' Roll Show
Will rock music ever be able entirely to extricate itself from a profoundly gendered symbolism?
Film
Short on Substance, The Goldfinch Falters on Screen
The adaptation of Donna Tartt's bestseller sacrifices its nuances to fit in all of its plot points.
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Wangechi Mutu Adorns the Met Museum's Façade With Images of African Queendom
For the first time in 117 years, the empty niches on the museum's exterior are occupied. Mutu's four bronze sculpture express resilience and wisdom.
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Maintenance Workers at Metropolitan Museum Receive 63% Pay Increase
After more than a year of negotiations, licensed HVAC assistant maintenance workers will receive $35 per hour while the annual salaries for new hires will jump from $45,760 to $72,800.
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The Vernacular of Space Through Images of the Moon
The Met's exhibition shows us that our cosmos is divided between the pictured and the real, and that the character of the pictorial asserts a powerful influence over our conception of the actual.