Art
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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News
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.
Art
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.
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Exploring Sexuality and Myth Through Fiber and Other Types of Sculpture
While Mrinalini Mukherjee radically used textiles to negotiate the deep roots of symbolic Indian art and craft, her visual vocabulary sought independence from traditional roles within her culture.
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The Charges Against a Notorious Suspected Smuggler of Indian Artifacts
Last month, Subhash Kapoor was charged with 86 felony counts for allegedly looting $145 million in antiquities over the last 50 years. This month, his former clients continue to reel from the revelations as more stolen artifacts are returned.
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The Artistic Achievements of Native Americans Through the Ages
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's series of talks and tours on Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection helps visitors better contextualize artwork by Indigenous creators across the centuries.
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An Indian Master of Fiber, Clay, and Bronze
In her fiber sculptures, Mrinalini Mukherjee achieved an alchemic relationship between materials and process, fusing abstraction and figuration to indelible effect.
Art
Leonardo and His Double
Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.
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The Metropolitan Museum Shrouded a Mark Chagall Painting to Draw Attention to World Refugee Day
The museum shrouded the painting to ask the question: “What would the Met’s walls look like if there were no refugees?” Works by other famous artists including Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, and Mark Rothko are labeled as works "made by a refugee.”
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Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death
The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.
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A Manga Artist Breaks Down The Tale of Genji
The legendary novel has been reinterpreted hundreds of times over the centuries, and Yamato Waki will discuss her adaptation in New York City this weekend.
Art
A Japanese Classic, Dimly Illuminated
The visual images interpreting The Tale of Genji, the world’s first novel, which was written by a woman, are presented as beautiful objects devoid of context.