Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photos by Nicholas Calcott / New York Times
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Allegory of Vigilance (c. 1772), (detail) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806), oil on canvas, 68.9 x 54.9 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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Tony Sarg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the book Tony Sarg's New York, 1927.
Photo: The Cary Collection
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Japanese #Netsuke for #WorldRatDay:
1. Cluster of Rats, late 19th-20th c.
Ivory w/ inlays, D 1 1/2 in. (4.0 cm)
LACMA https://collections.lacma.org/node/189655
2. Group of Rats Nestled in an Abalone Shell, late 19th c.
Ivory, horn, H 7/8 in (2.2 cm) x W 1 5/8 in (4.1 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59658
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Elliott Erwitt. Archer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1949
I Am Collective Memories • Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk
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A pottery bowl with human feet. I love this silly thing. The Met says it resembles the hieroglyph meaning “to bring”, though (amateur theory warning) I’ve always wondered if it was meant to spell wab, “to wash”.
When: Predynastic Egypt
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Tuesday May 2.
Met Gala 2023.
Fashions change, but there is one look that never goes out of style.
And you bet your a*s it's an itty-bitty-kitty wearing a French Net. But this is not just any kitty-cat: this is Choupette, of the late, great fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld for #met gala 2023.
This year, the great, good, and outrageously sexy gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the one and only, nEwWĕ yörKę citæyyyyy for the event known as "The Super Bowl of Fashion." Here, a sheer mass of the glitziest, most glam celebz sported pearls, starched collars, and black and white to honor the legendary German designer, who passed away in 2019. For this year's theme, "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty", invite-only attendees were asked to wear clothes "in honor of Karl". And honor, they did, with an array of designs, dresses, and costumes to astonish, illuminate, and bedazzle. And dashboard beloveds Pedro Pascal, Lizzo, K.Stew, and Harvey Guillén turned heads and served, quite frankly.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Fletcher Mansion, New York City, Jean-François Raffaëlli, 1899
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Flora and Zephyr by Jacopo Amigoni, (1730s), oil on canvas, 213.4 x 147.3 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Woman reading, ca. 1922, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City - by Boris Grigoriev (1886 - 1939), Russian
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