Why is this gall bladder in such an extravagant case?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The decorated koto that might be too beautiful to play
Goto Teijo, Koto
How the only copy of this landscape photograph is revolutionary
Roger Fenton, Landscape with clouds
Tulips, roses, carnations, irises, and hydrangea form this sort of dense garden that weaves in and out of the paisley shapes.
Shawl from Deneirouse and Boisglavy
Follow the conservation treatment and research of “Emblem of Folly,” a painting from colonial Cuzco. Committed study of these works can help create a better understanding of Latinx cultural identity and history.
Conserving Cuzco School Paintings
Follow the conservation treatment and research of “Emblem of Folly,” a painting from colonial Cuzco. Committed study of these works can help create a better understanding of Latinx cultural identity and history.
Conserving Cuzco School Paintings
A painting that gives the impression of a vast landscape that stretches for eternity
Congyi, Cloudy Mountains
Why this Buddhist Monk statue defies traditional depictions of religious figures
Arhat (Luohan)
The power that this sculpture has is precisely in the fact that it's not always concerned with naturalism and it's really concerned with telling a story.
Plaque with the Journey to Emmaus and ...
"You have to imagine that nobody really saw this except the princess."
Pectoral and necklace of Sithathoryunet
"One of the great masterpieces of world art was really given rise to by the openness of the Muslim mind."
Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan
What can a pensive bodhisattva tell us about 7th-century Korea?
Pensive bodhisattva
"They've captured her in a moment in time."
Statue of an Offering Bearer, Tomb of ...
"It seems to me that aesthetically this goes well beyond meeting the need of surviving into the afterlife."
Canopic Jar with a Lid in the ...
"He's like the bouncer of Buddhism."
Fudō Myōō (Achala-vidyārāja)
"He enlarges private life and makes it public, catching the most touching, the most revealing, the most hidden moment ..."
Lin Tianmiao on Alex Katz’s Black and ...
"Yes, they're all the same subject, but there is such a range within that."
Cecily Brown on medieval sculptures of the ...
"It's balanced between this incredible idealization and humanity."
Barry X Ball on an Egyptian fragment ...
Go behind the scenes with contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu, who discusses the inspiration and making of The NewOnes, will free Us, an exhibition of four sculpture that inaugurate The Met's annual facade commission
Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us
"He has clarity in his humanness, in his present-ness: ‘I'm here, right now, and not for long.’"
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