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The Vibrant Palette of Raghubir Singh’s India
Singh did justice to the most layered and dense figurations of his Indian homeland.
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Go Behind the Scenes of 9 Museums With These Great Online Web Series
These nine museums are using online video series to take viewers behind the scenes of their collections.
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When Art Refuses to Let Go
Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.
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Unique Egyptian Gilded Coffin Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum
The museum's ancient Egyptian art collection now has a highly ornamental coffin belonging to a high-ranking priest.
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Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies
At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.
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Ettore Sottsass's Candy-Colored Utopian Design
The Met Breuer's exhibition makes the case that it wasn’t just an aesthetic Sottsass unleashed on the world, but a particular way of interpreting the past and imagining the future.
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The Met Museum Hands Over Another Antiquity Believed to Be Stolen
A foot-tall sculpture of a bull's head was handed over to Manhattan's district attorney last month at Lebanon's request, but collectors from Colorado are claiming to be its rightful owners.
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Metropolitan Museum Surrenders Looted Greek Vase
The 4th-century BCE terracotta vase, attributed to the artist Python, had been on display in the museum's Greco-Roman galleries for more than two decades.
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Translating Sight into Paint
Working entirely from observation, Daniel Heidkamp’s paintings join what we see with what we feel.
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Metropolitan Museum Sets New Attendance Record with 7 Million Visitors
Amid a turbulent year, the institution announced yesterday that it set a new attendance record that surpasses last year's then-record high of 6.7 million.
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Caravaggio’s Fascination with Death
The artist's last two paintings are as impetuous, violent, and racked with guilt as Caravaggio was himself.
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From a Jade Burial Suit to Terracotta Warriors, a Blockbuster Display of China's Ancient Treasures
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Age of Empires features over 160 archaeological finds, mostly from shrines and royal tombs from the Qin and Han Dynasties.