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Van Gogh’s First Painting of the Outdoors Heads to The Met
It’s part of a trove of 200 artworks gifted to the museum by Law & Order producer Dick Wolf.
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Met Museum to Return 16 Looted Khmer Artifacts
The works, linked with infamous antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford, will be repatriated to Cambodia and Thailand.
Art
The Dance Between Manet and Degas
What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
Books
An Entire Life Told in Museum Wall Labels
Christine Coulson’s sophomore novel One Woman Show explores the formal constraints — and narrative possibilities — of the museum wall label.
Books
Confessions of a Met Museum Info Desk Worker
Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk: An Epic answers questions readers never knew they had.
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Met Museum Returns Two Sculptures to Nepal
A carved wooden beam that once adorned the exterior of a temple and an 11th-century stone rendering of the god Vishnu will be returned.
Art
On Labor and Race in Great Depression America
Art for the Millions at the Met Museum foregrounds the perspectives of women and people of color in the 1930s in the wake of industrialized labor.
Art
What’s Left to Say About Picasso?
A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn at The Met is a compact, simple display, but the work and research it contains is diminished by being so cut off from its historical and personal contexts.
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Free Children's Space Opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The interactive center is intended to serve as a community hub, the museum says.
Art
The Dark Side of Van Gogh’s Cypress Trees
The challenge at the heart of Van Gogh’s Cypresses is that the trees carried associations in the late 19th century that are lost on us today.
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Met Museum Acquires Rare 19th-Century Portrait of Enslaved Child
The painting of 15-year-old Bélizaire with the children of the family that enslaved him was restored to its original composition after his figure was covered up around 1900.
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Play Dress-Up at the Met Museum With New AR App
Using the Replica app, users can track down artworks at the museum and turn them into digitized wearable items, like a Van Gogh straw hat and a Corinthian warrior helmet.