Thomas Waterman Wood – A Bit of War History: The Contraband – American – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/13345
In The Contraband (84.12a) a self-emancipated man appears in a US Army office, eager
In The Contraband (84.12a) a self-emancipated man appears in a US Army office, eager
Inscription: Signed in pencil on the verso: „James Van Der Zee [sideways]“; artist’s printed address label, verso C: „Jas Vanderzee // 176 W. 94 Street // New York, N.Y. 10025“; stamped in ink, verso TC: „Negro Art Adv
commercial sign (referred to by Herman Melville in his 1857 novel „The Confidence Man
This exhibition, on view April 29 through September 6, 2004, explores French dress and its aesthetic interplay with art, furniture, and the broader decorative arts between 1750 and 1789, revealing their role as instruments of seduction and erotic play.
intent, are presented as the favored modes of beguilement of the eighteenth-century man
The study of material derived from ash used in the ground preparations of paintings by both Spanish and Latin American artists in the Baroque period sheds new light on the spread of artistic practices beyond Spain.
with skeletal structure, found in the ground layer of Velazquez’s Portrait of a Man
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. 3 Aaron Douglas May 1927 Window Shopper Aaron Douglas ca. 1930 The Junk Man
1962, excavated under the direction of Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1962, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
Each man holds a ram-headed scepter in his right hand while the figure at left holds
Robyn Schiff returns to The Met to read from her poem, Information Desk: An Epic in which she recounts what it was like to work at the Museum while establishing herself as a young writer.
27 BCE–68 CE Self-Portrait Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) 1660 Portrait of a Man
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Wilderness Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) ca. 1515–20 Portrait of a Man
This spring Pierre Huyghe (born 1962, Paris) has installed the third in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. His project explores the transformation of cultural and biological systems through a dynamic gathering of components derived from the Museum’s collection, architecture, and surroundings.
which portrays a mysterious creature’s resilience in the aftermath of natural and man-made
The physical embodiment of desire, these objects often display literary or symbolic representations of the pursuit or attainment of the lover.
foreground of a landscape in which a woman points an accusatory finger—and a dagger—at a man