Art
The Legacy of the Lost Jade Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sometime in the mid-20th century, one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's most ornate galleries disappeared.
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An Arrow-Shooting Goddess from a Time When Clocks Were Entertainment
From the 16th to 19th century, clockmaking in Europe saw increasingly elaborate marriages of interior mechanics and exterior design.
Art
The Enveloping Darkness of John Singer Sargent’s Prints and Drawings
Rare examples of John Singer Sargent's printmaking are on temporary view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrating his interest in the expressive shapes of the human body and lithography's potential to show these figures in darkness and light.
Art
Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
Occasionally, we are forced to venture beyond Brooklyn to see art.
Opinion
To the Man Suing the Met for “Aesthetic Whitewashing,” Here Are Some of the Museum's Non-Aryan Jesuses
One New Yorker is suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art for displaying fair-skinned and blonde-haired artworks of Jesus Christ, claiming that they are racist and made him suffer from emotional distress.
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Modeling Life, Death, and Eternity in the Ancient Americas
Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace, one of the small-scale representations of a lost precolonial world in Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas.
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Colonialism and Power: A Conversation About the Met's Kongo Show
This is a rare exhibition, attempting to countermand the exoticism of central African civilizations that was historically impelled by the objects’ display in princely European cabinets of curiosities.
Art
The Met and Hyperallergic Present "In Our 'Extreme Present' Time with Shumon Basar"
Our fall collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art continues on Friday, November 13.
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The Met and Hyperallergic Present 'In Our Time: Radical Design Geographies with Liam Young'
We're very excited to announce our new two-part fall collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Modern and Contemporary Art!
News
Protesters Demand Metropolitan Museum Remove 19 Renoir Paintings
The fight against Renoir's paintings and their established presence in museums is far, far from over.
Art
The Existential Experience of a Chardin Still Life
Does drawing define, and color merely decorate? Or is drawing just the menu, and color the meal?
Art
The Unsettled Legacy of John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent’s brilliance as a painter should be obvious to anyone with eyes. And yet a perennial caveat inevitably surfaces in much of the discussion that accompanies exhibitions of his work.