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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.
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Storms of Sea, Sky, and Paint
The driving force behind Peder Balke’s painting is his desire to harness paint’s capacious materiality, from impasto to liquidity, to evoke the changing, often tumultuous physicality of his subject matter.
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The Outlandish and Beautiful Juxtapositions of Rei Kawakubo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute dedicates its second solo show of a living designer to Rei Kawakubo, who started her daring clothing label Comme des Garçons in 1973.
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Archival Slides from the Metropolitan Museum Find New Life as Artworks
After sitting in storage space, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's thousands of 35-millimeter slides found a new home at the Department of Cultural Affairs's reuse center, Material for the Arts.
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Why Irving Penn’s Portraits Are His Most Compelling Photographs
Irving Penn’s retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art traces his career in fashion and portrait photography from 1943 to 2008.