Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturalist of The Met Cloisters, discusses the origins of the Date palm and its significance in medieval art and life.
dry in the second, fresh dates are said to be good for the intestines, although bad
Researchers at The Met describe methods used to uncover the artist John Singer Sargent’s creative process.
etc….All the a.m. it was one series of bons mots, mauvaises plaisanteries (puns, bad
Hear from barber Joshua Livingston about the power of community spaces to support connection and well-being, whether when visiting an art museum or getting a haircut.
Joshua Livingston: So, it wasn’t a bad haircut, it’s just that she wants it to grow
In this interview, exhibition curator Kiki Karoglou shares provocative insights into the contemporary relevance of mythological hybrid beings and offers a behind-the-scenes look into the making of the exhibition.
In this period, beauty is associated with good character, and ugliness with bad.
This panel and a scene showing the Flagellation of Christ (The Met 2001.216.2) come from a large dismantled retable probably made for the high altar of the former Collegiate Church (Kollegiatstift) of Sankt Maria und Sankt Georg, now the Neustädter Marienkirche, in Bielefeld
in the 1420s after Conrad von Soest’s Niederwildungen Altarpiece [Stadtkirche, Bad
This panel and a scene showing the Crucifixion of Christ (The Met, 43.161) come from a large dismantled retable probably made for the high altar of the former Collegiate Church (Kollegiatstift) of Sankt Maria und Sankt Georg, now the Neustädter Marienkirche, in Bielefeld
in the 1420s after Conrad von Soest’s Niederwildungen Altarpiece [Stadtkirche, Bad
The archaeology of rubbish.
Because essentially trash, as bad as it is, that did sustain us.
the artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris (1889–d. 1891; sent to him by the artist on September 28, 1889); his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, in trust for their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh (1891–95; consigned by June 1895 to Lucien Moline (Galerie Laffitte), Paris; sold with six other paintings for fl
Alfred Bader. Künstler-Tragik: Karl Stauffer, Vincent van Gogh.
textile
Nagasaki for their annual voyages from Goa, India. 1584: A Spanish galleon, escaping bad
This picture was painted in 1653 for the Sicilian nobleman Don Antonio Ruffo (1610/11–1678) and sent from Amsterdam to his palace in Messina during the summer of 1654. Ruffo was an avid collector; at his death he had 364 paintings, including a work by Van Dyck, Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo, now also in The Met (Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honour of Alfred Bader. Ed.
