The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
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The Unicorn in Captivity (one of seven woven hangings popularly known as the Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn), 1495–1505, South Netherlandish, Wool, silk, silver, and gilt (The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Manhattan has the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the Guggenheim and more but Brooklyn Heights has snagged the Toy Museum. The Brooklyn Eagle reports: Brooklyn Eagle: Marlene Hochman, founder of The Toy Museum of New York (formally known as The Doll and Toy Museum of NYC) and local public officials will host a preview of the museum’s [...]
Fast Company Now (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
At 9:40 a.m. on Thursday, a white van pulled over near the corner of 68th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. A cameraman armed with a telephoto lens watched from the corner. A video crew snooped from a rooftop. Half a dozen operatives on the street murmured discretely into walkie-talkies, calling each other "Hound Dog," "Crow's Nest" and other code names. Within minutes...
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I’ll be here a good deal of the day, refreshing the mind and soul. A glimpse at a Van Gogh. A Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora. c. 530 BC. of the “Euphiltos Painter” Post from: WDTPRS The Metropolitan Museum of Art Post from: WDTPRS The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Snarkylicious (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Here's another post of processing things that have come up lately from more than one person. If I refer to the previous post of the three legged stool, this is probably the leg that I have had the least trouble with, at least for some time, and that is the concept of 'home'. I was born into suburbs and I was raised initially in the suburbs. An experience which I think provided me with many good memories...
New York Portraits (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Photo by myself above Central Park, around 86th Street and Fifth Avenue. Ah, what a view? I took this photo from a project site last week. The trees in Central Park are showing their fall colors. The large building to the left is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- Has anyone caught the recent episode of Frontline, set in a hair salon on the Upper East Side? The episode, called Close to Home , originally...
ARTCO (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
On October 29th Artist Rob Pruitt presented The First Annual Art Awards at The Guggenheim Museum in association with White Columns and realized together with Calvin Klein Collection. MC'd by the Delusional Downtown Divas, Pruitt conceived the event as a performance-based artwork modeled after Hollywood awards ceremonies. Nominees in nine categories included artists, curators, critics, and gallerists,...
ArtsBeat (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A photograph by Cindy Sherman from her "Untitled Film Stills" series. Part of "The Pictures Generation," a 2009 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "The Pictures Generation," a show that closed earlier this year at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been dubbed the best group show of the year in something called "Rob Pruitt...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A long-lost fragment of Michelangelo's legacy -- and the subject of a war of words among art historians -- gets its first public perch in New York today as part of a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since 1997, historians have hotly ...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475- Rome 1564), in its Vélez Blanco patio beginning November 3, 2009. The fragmentary marble figure of a nude youth, which is missing arms and lower legs, was retained previously in the Fifth Avenue mansion that has housed the Cultural Services office...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Till Fellner, an excellent Vienna-born pianist, illuminated the dramatic hues of the Opus 7 Sonata on Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its PianoForte series.
Lesley Jenike (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
If you have Monday free and you're so Romantically inclined, come up to Columbus for this. I'm beyond ecstatic: CCAD's Visiting Artist Series Presents: Michael Phillips, Ph.D. Printmaker, William Blake Scholar Monday, Nov. 9, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Canzani Center Auditorium, 60 Cleveland Ave. at Gay St. A scholar of William Blake for more than 30 years, Michael Phillips was guest curator of the...
Bernard Perroud (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Arnold Böcklin. Swiss painter (b. 1827, Basel, d. 1901, Firenze) The Island of the Dead. 1880. Oil on canvas, 71 x 122 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Island of the Dead. 1886. Oil on canvas, 80 x 150 cm. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. The Island of the Dead. 1884. Oil on copper, 81 x 151 cm. Lugano, Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz; whereabouts unknown( destroyed during the...
Night After Night (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
"An Ensemble With Many Homes Finds Another" The New York Times, October 18, 2009 An article about the Pacifica Quartet, a widely admired, award-winning string quartet that has just taken over a plum residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Young Archer is a marble Renaissance youth with an amazing backstory: Thirteen years ago, it was declared by NYU's Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt to be an early work of Michelangelo himself. Rival scholars howled, and art historians continue to pick over its anatomy and history for clues."...
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