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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
The Met Celebrates Women Designers Without Enough Reflection Skip to content Installation view of Women Dressing Women at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Women Dressing Women at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is an attempt to acknowledge a gap...
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about 5 months ago (12/15/2023)
The Metropolitan Museum will repatriate 16 Khmer sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Antiquities trafficking news The Metropolitan Museum will repatriate 16 Khmer sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand The museum had been pressured and petitioned for years to return objects tied to smuggler Douglas Latchford Theo Belci 15 December 2023 Share Two antiquities with ties to the late dealer Douglas Latchford—the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Seated in Royal Ease from the tenth or eleventh century (left) and the Head of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion from the tenth century (right)—will be repatriated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has begun the repatriation process for 16 sculptures previously held in its permanent collection, returning 14 to Cambodia and two to Thailand...
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about 5 months ago (12/15/2023)
Met Museum to Return 16 Looted Khmer Artifacts Skip to content Unknown artist, "Head of Buddha" (7th century), sandstone, 24 x 13 x 12 3/4 inches (all photos courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) An ancient larger-than-life sandstone Buddha head, a bronze sculpture of a seated Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and a 10th-century goddess statuette from a remote temple complex are among 16 looted Khmer works currently in the process of repatriation back to Cambodia and Thailand, according to announcements by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) released today, December 15...
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about 5 months ago (12/11/2023)
The Dance Between Manet and Degas Skip to content Edgar Degas, "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet” (1868–69), oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 27 15/16 inches; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (photo courtesy Kitakyushu Municipal Museum) Punctuation as architecture, architecture as destiny...
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about 5 months ago (12/06/2023)
Review: ‘Women Dressing Women’ at the Met’s Costume Institute | Observer When it comes to fashion, we tend to celebrate male designers...
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about 5 months ago (12/05/2023)
An Entire Life Told in Museum Wall Labels Skip to content Cover of One Woman Show by Christine Coulson (courtesy Avid Reader Press) The writer Christine Coulson spent much of her 25-year tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art composing wall labels for the museum’s galleries...
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about 6 months ago (11/20/2023)
Black Figures, Modern Art Enter the Met’s European Painting Galleries – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Alex Greenberger Plus Icon Alex Greenberger Senior Editor, ARTnews View All November 20, 2023 10:31am Pablo Picasso joins El Greco in the Met's new European paintings presentation, which expands the purview to include modern art...
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about 124 months ago (03/03/2014)
Invisible Ink – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Richard Vine Plus Icon Richard Vine Managing Editor, Art in America View All March 3, 2014 2:10am View Gallery 6 Images “ Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China ,” now at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art , seems at first to be a long-awaited corrective to Western myopia in regard to Chinese ink painting and calligraphy...
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about 151 months ago (12/01/2011)
Turning Over a New Leaf – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Lilly Wei Plus Icon Lilly Wei author View All December 1, 2011 11:00am It doesn’t look like an exhibition about dissent, at least not to contemporary eyes accustomed to more rousing images...