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Pompeii Before the Point-and-Shoot: The Earliest Photographs of Italy
The first photographic images seen in Italy were botanical prints by Henry Fox Talbot, beginning three decades of experimentation with photography in 19th-century Italy.
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Artistic Expressions of Math Over Seven Centuries
Picturing Math at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has prints dating back to the 15th century, all expressing the beauty of mathematics.
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Director of the Metropolitan Museum, Thomas P. Campbell, Resigns Suddenly
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's director and chief executive Thomas P. Campbell resigned today after eight years serving the position.
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Walk Inside a Gothic Prayer Bead in a VR Experience at the Cloisters
The VR experience accompanying Small Wonders at the Cloisters in New York is an immersive tour through the angels and demons of a tiny 16th-century prayer bead.
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How the Met's Sale of a Max Beckmann Painting Changed US Museums
Beckmann's "Self-Portrait with Cigarette" belonged to the Metropolitan Museum until 1971, when its deaccession set off a series of disputes that reshaped museum practices.
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Metropolitan Museum Gives Unrestricted Access to 375,000 Images
Under the institution's new Open Access policy, images of hundreds of thousands of works from its collection are available to copy, remix, and distribute freely.
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Maira Kalman's Daily Digressions
In the writer and illustrator Maira Kalman's latest project, she narrates a morning workout at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that exemplifies her digressive spirit and openness to new ideas.
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Captivating Objects from the Met's Sprawling Exhibition on Medieval Jerusalem
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York takes an on-the-ground view of life, war, and devotion in Jerusalem during the medieval era.
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The Suggestive Compositions of a Mediocre Caravaggist
The Metropolitan Museum's Valentin de Boulogne show clarifies why this French follower of Caravaggio remains lesser-known, despite the leering details in many of his paintings.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
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Kerry James Marshall and the Politics of Visibility
The retrospective of the work of Kerry James Marshall demonstrates a deep knowledge of blackness and a desire to expand the world of art with it.
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The Life Emphatic with Valentin de Boulogne
While the name “Caravaggio” inevitably rides along in the title of the show, it is there to assert that we are moving “beyond.”