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Amazing stuff from the 15th and 16th century at the Met’s gothic architecture drawing exhibit including this Robert Smythson drawing from 1599. Incredibly fine linework like you wouldn’t believe.
#Architecture #RobertSmythson #GothicArchitecture #Drawing #MetMuseum
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Amazing stuff from the 15th and 16th century at the Met’s gothic architecture drawing exhibit including this Robert Smythson drawing from 1599. Incredibly fine linework like you wouldn’t believe.
#Architecture #RobertSmythson #GothicArchitecture #Drawing #MetMuseum
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Why do I complicate things? I start from a simple idea, common time, single line. "Let's keep it simple."
It doesn't last long. Double bass, piano, percussion, violins; and then I add a conch. A conch?! What the heck!Oh well, that's how I am, I suppose. I can't escape from myself. (And I hope you can't too XD)
https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/flutter-by
Picture: an excerpt from “Butterflies”, by Tosa Mitsuyoshi, Momoyama period (1573–1615). Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper. 65 in. × 12 ft. 3/4 in. (165.1 × 367.7 cm). #MetMuseum
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Why do I complicate things? I start from a simple idea, common time, single line. "Let's keep it simple."
It doesn't last long. Double bass, piano, percussion, violins; and then I add a conch. A conch?! What the heck!Oh well, that's how I am, I suppose. I can't escape from myself. (And I hope you can't too XD)
https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/flutter-by
Picture: an excerpt from “Butterflies”, by Tosa Mitsuyoshi, Momoyama period (1573–1615). Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper. 65 in. × 12 ft. 3/4 in. (165.1 × 367.7 cm). #MetMuseum
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Ready for some David Lang with the Clarion Choir and Catalyst Quartet at the Met Museum
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Ready for some David Lang with the Clarion Choir and Catalyst Quartet at the Met Museum
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Trilobed vessel with Two Lovers in a Landscape
Trilobed vessel, ca. 1540–45
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Trilobed vessel with Two Lovers in a Landscape
Trilobed vessel, ca. 1540–45
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Fragment of a dish, 11th–12th century
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Riding Boots, American, 1830s
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This sculpture is the real life version of the 🤝 emoji!
In 1853, pioneering American sculptor Harriet Hosmer met poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and proposed an unusual artistic collaboration: a cast of their interlocked right hands.
Elizabeth Browning agreed on one condition—that Hosmer complete the casting herself, rather than her studio assistants. The sculpture captured the love between the Brownings, who had eloped to Italy seven years earlier
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This sculpture is the real life version of the 🤝 emoji!
In 1853, pioneering American sculptor Harriet Hosmer met poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and proposed an unusual artistic collaboration: a cast of their interlocked right hands.
Elizabeth Browning agreed on one condition—that Hosmer complete the casting herself, rather than her studio assistants. The sculpture captured the love between the Brownings, who had eloped to Italy seven years earlier
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Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Kylix fragments, Greek, Attic, 5th century BCE
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The new #metmuseum costume exhibit is trying a bit too hard with the art/costume pairings. Some of them really work, and some of them are clearly “we had a piece in our collection that has more or less the same body type as the dress.” Still worth seeing but I wouldn’t plan a visit around it, like I would for the Raphael exhibit. #nyc
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Fragment, European or Middle Eastern, ca. 1150–ca. 1250
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“Sehr scharf” / Very sharp
Shiny and with a bit of curve to it as well. The sword, I mean. Where are you looking?
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“Sehr scharf” / Very sharp
Shiny and with a bit of curve to it as well. The sword, I mean. Where are you looking?
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Met Gala 2026: Fashion's Spectacle Unfolds Amidst Art and the Body
The Met Gala 2026 happens today, May 4, at The Met. The 'Fashion Is Art' theme raises money for the Costume Institute. See who is attending.
#MetGala2026, #FashionIsArt, #CostumeInstitute, #MetMuseum, #NYC
https://newsletter.tf/met-gala-2026-fashion-art-theme-raises-funds/
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The Met Gala 2026 is happening today, May 4. This year's theme is 'Fashion Is Art' and aims to raise funds for the museum's Costume Institute.
#MetGala2026, #FashionIsArt, #CostumeInstitute, #MetMuseum, #NYC
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Met Museum Realigns Fashion Hierarchy with 2026 'Costume Art' Exhibition
The Met Museum's 2026 'Costume Art' exhibit will use 25 new mannequins to show different body types, changing how fashion is displayed.
#MetMuseum, #CostumeArt, #FashionExhibition, #DiverseBodies, #AndrewBolton
https://newsletter.tf/met-museum-new-mannequins-costume-art-exhibit/
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The Met Museum is changing its fashion displays for 2026. They will use 25 new mannequins that show many different body shapes, unlike the old standard size.
#MetMuseum, #CostumeArt, #FashionExhibition, #DiverseBodies, #AndrewBolton
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“Chic”
Frederick Douglass’ first pocket watch. Douglass wrote that, for a formerly enslaved man, it was more than just a fashionable item — it was a powerful sign that he was free and that his time was now his own.
More in the alt text.
#photography #history #blackhistory #frederickdouglass #watch #watches #museum #metmuseum
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“Chic”
Frederick Douglass’ first pocket watch. Douglass wrote that, for a formerly enslaved man, it was more than just a fashionable item — it was a powerful sign that he was free and that his time was now his own.
More in the alt text.
#photography #history #blackhistory #frederickdouglass #watch #watches #museum #metmuseum
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Simplicius in der Waldeinöde, from the series Intermezzi
Print, n.d. by Max Klinger (German, Leipzig 1857–1920 Großjena)
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Pendant with Daoist divinities
Pendant, China, 19th century
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Europa & Europa
for more on the #moon : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-moons-of-jupiter/
for more on the #myth (aka that time #Zeus became a bull and... uh abducted the princess Europa...): https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/taurus-the-bull/
📷 :https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA01503 & https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/188530
#NASA #Astrophotography #moon #Europa #Jupiter #MoonsOfJupiter #Science #StarLore #mythology #GreekMythology #myths #Museum #Art #MetMuseum #Sculpture
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Europa & Europa
for more on the #moon : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-moons-of-jupiter/
for more on the #myth (aka that time #Zeus became a bull and... uh abducted the princess Europa...): https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/taurus-the-bull/
📷 :https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA01503 & https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/188530
#NASA #Astrophotography #moon #Europa #Jupiter #MoonsOfJupiter #Science #StarLore #mythology #GreekMythology #myths #Museum #Art #MetMuseum #Sculpture
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The best praise I can give to an art exhibit is that it changed how I think about its subject. A Tiffany exhibit did that many years ago, and the Raphael exhibit has done it again.
I always liked Raphael just fine, but putting his work into a context of other people who surrounded him—earlier Madonna and Child painters, artists who influenced him, his fierce rival Michelangelo, and the members of his atelier who he trained and influenced, made me understand him so much more. The before/after of him meeting Leonardo and learning from him was particularly striking—you can see it so much in the pieces, thanks to a couple of well-chosen Leonardo drawings that are juxtaposed with Raphael.
If you’re anywhere near #NYC, if you have the slightest interest in Renaissance art, see it. #metMuseum
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Ganymede & Ganymede.
To learn about the #moon : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-moons-of-jupiter/
To learn about the #myth : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/aquarius/
📷 : https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA01666 & https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197351
#GreekMythology #StarLore #Jupiter #moon #MoonsOfJupiter #podcast #museum #MetMuseum #art #Sculpture #ganymede #mythology #astrophotography #astronomy #AstroDon #SolarSystem
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Ganymede & Ganymede.
To learn about the #moon : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-moons-of-jupiter/
To learn about the #myth : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/aquarius/
📷 : https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA01666 & https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197351
#GreekMythology #StarLore #Jupiter #moon #MoonsOfJupiter #podcast #museum #MetMuseum #art #Sculpture #ganymede #mythology #astrophotography #astronomy #AstroDon #SolarSystem
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On Monday, we get to go to a Met members' only evening for the Raphael exhibit, and I
I just
These works have never been assembled together before, and will undoubtedly not be assembled together again in my lifetime. This is an amazing opportunity and probably worth the entire year's membership cost. It took the museum seven years to organize this exhibit because it involves so many different museums and collections.
I'll report back when I actually see it but I cannot wait.
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Went to the Cloisters special exhibit about sex and gender in Medieval art today, just before it closed. I hadn’t realized how many Catholic saints were what we’d now call trans, but there was a whole section of the exhibit about it. Almost always FTM, usually justified as “miraculously transformed” but I’ll bet, to the extent that the stories were true, that what they were describing was just social transition.
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Went to the Cloisters special exhibit about sex and gender in Medieval art today, just before it closed. I hadn’t realized how many Catholic saints were what we’d now call trans, but there was a whole section of the exhibit about it. Almost always FTM, usually justified as “miraculously transformed” but I’ll bet, to the extent that the stories were true, that what they were describing was just social transition.
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#Astrophotography (albumen silver print from glass negative ) of Ring Nebula from... 1885!
The ring nebula is located in the #constellation Lyra! You can learn more about the cool #astronomy in the constellation, #Lyra here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/lyra-cosmic-background/
📷 :https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266895
#space #astronomy #science #M57 #RingNebula #AstroDon #History #Museum #MetMuseum #photographs #Lyra #constellations
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#Astrophotography (albumen silver print from glass negative ) of Ring Nebula from... 1885!
The ring nebula is located in the #constellation Lyra! You can learn more about the cool #astronomy in the constellation, #Lyra here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/lyra-cosmic-background/
📷 :https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266895
#space #astronomy #science #M57 #RingNebula #AstroDon #History #Museum #MetMuseum #photographs #Lyra #constellations
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you've probably seen the statue of #hercules wrestling with the Nemean lion (e.g., trying to give a cat a pill), but have you seen this, much more concerning one where he is.. skinning the lion?!
... the water nymph has the right idea--get the eff away from this dude 🙀
For more takes on the #labors and #myths of Hercules -- check out: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/hercules-myths-and-retconstellations/
📷 :https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/203957
#mythology #hercules #heracles #GreekMythology #StarLore #constellatioins #art #MetMuseum #museum #sculpture #classical #classics
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you've probably seen the statue of #hercules wrestling with the Nemean lion (e.g., trying to give a cat a pill), but have you seen this, much more concerning one where he is.. skinning the lion?!
... the water nymph has the right idea--get the eff away from this dude 🙀
For more takes on the #labors and #myths of Hercules -- check out: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/hercules-myths-and-retconstellations/
📷 :https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/203957
#mythology #hercules #heracles #GreekMythology #StarLore #constellatioins #art #MetMuseum #museum #sculpture #classical #classics
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«Thanks to The Met’s continued emphasis on imaging, we can now experience every detail in three-dimensional renderings of nearly 140 significant objects in its holdings.»
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/metropolitan-museum-of-art-3d-models-art-history/
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«Thanks to The Met’s continued emphasis on imaging, we can now experience every detail in three-dimensional renderings of nearly 140 significant objects in its holdings.»
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/metropolitan-museum-of-art-3d-models-art-history/
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The Met Releases High-Def 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects
#HackerNews #MetMuseum #ArtTechnology #3DScanning #DigitalArt
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The Met Releases High-Def 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects
#HackerNews #MetMuseum #ArtTechnology #3DScanning #DigitalArt
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Tonight is a tare chance to hear two of the Met's historic pianos in concert
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Publish Over 100 Three-Dimensional Models of Iconic Works from Across Its Collection.
A series of nine models were co-produced with NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) using specialized imaging techniques to realize the capture of monumental works
https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/3-d-models-announcement-2026 #globalmuseum #METMuseum #museums #collections -
In addition to capes, I would also like these kind of arm bands to come back into mainstream fashion...
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#FotoVorschlag
“Rückansicht” / Rear view“Perseus with the Head of Medusa” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I decided to crop out the most relevant part, because the world has seen enough violence towards vilified women.
#photography #statue #sculpture #museum #metmuseum #mythology #greekmythology #nyc
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The Editorial Board of the Metropolitan Museum Journal is pleased to announce volume 60 (2025), available via the Journal's home page on the University of Chicago Press website.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/met/current
Working on an article or research note?
Submission guidelines:
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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/instruct.
Deadline: September 15, 2026
Please send materials to: [email protected]