#Metropolitan Museum of Art's

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the eldest boy has arrived

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Three Puppies - Japan, 18th century

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Portions of a Ceremonial Armor | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

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alexander mcqueen: savage beauty

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Roses are red, violets are blue... have some Valentine's Day cards, from JSTOR to you! 💌 Each card features a lovely image from Artstor on JSTOR. Images courtesy of Wellcome Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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18th century indian dagger and sheath

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Alexander McQueen "Savage Beauty" (2011)

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GUYS GUYS GUYS I AM NOT OKAY. IM GOING FERALLLLLLLLLL AHRHGFAHDOUHDLHBBDLIHBLKJBNMJKLSKH

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Umbrella Pines in the Villa Borghese, Rome, William James Müller, 1839

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emma chamberlain wearing custom jean paul gaultier fw03

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Looks vs. Loot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by The Antiquities Coalition (@/CombatLooting) on Twitter

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1: The #MetGala may be "fashion's biggest night," but tonight's event hides some dark truths at @/metmuseum...including a long history of looted antiquities. To spotlight some of the contested objects from the Met's collection, we are featuring #MetGala vs. Loot [THREAD]

2. First up: @/KimKardashian in @/Versace at the 2018 #MetGala posing next to the Golden Sarcophagus of Nedjemankh. The coffin was purchased by @/metmuseum in 2017 and repatriated in 2019 after this viral photo helped solve the case. (link)

3. Next, her sister @/KendallJenner in @/givenchy at the 2021 #MetGala as the 13th century wooden Temple Strut with Salabhinka, returned from @/metmuseum to the Government of Nepal in 2022, after it was determined to be looked from Itum Baha in Kathmandu. (link)

4. Another object from Nepal, @/rihanna in @/Margiel at the 2018 #MetGala as a 10th century Shiva in Himalayan Adobe with Ascetics. @/metmuseum was gifted the sculpture in 1995, but repatriated it to Nepal in 2022 along with the temple strut, after learning both were stolen.

5. Dakota Johnson in @/gucci at the 2022 #MetGala as a terracotta kylix (c. 470 bCE). This piece, valued at $1.5 million, was seized from the @/metmuseum in July 2022 after being linked to Italian antiquities trafficker Gianfranco Becchina. (link)

6. @/billieeilish in @/gucci at the 2022 #MetGala as the Fayum Mummy Portrait. Looted from Egypt and sold to @/metmuseum in 2013, it was seized in September '22 by @/ManhattanDA as part of a global investigation into an international trafficking ring. (link)

7. @/iamcardib in @/ThomeBrowne at the 2019 #MetGala as a painted linen fragment displaying a scene from the Book of Exodus, 'Exodus Painting" (250-450 CE), valued at over $1.6 million. The fragments were also part of the seizure by the @/ManhattanDA in September '22.

8. @/Beyonce in @/givenchy at the 2013 #MetGala as a 2,300-year-old vase that depicts the god Dionysus. The vase is linked to Giacomo Medici, an art dealer convicted of conspiracy to traffic antiquities in 2004, and was seized from the @/metmuseum in 2017. (link)

9. @/blakelively in @/Versace at the 2022 #MetGala as a bronze statuette of Jupiter. This object is among 27 antiquities that were returned to Italy and Egypt in 2022 after investigators seized them from the @/metmuseum. (link)

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Embroidery sample for a man’s suit. 1800–1815. Credit line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/224657

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Simon Vouet (1590-1649) "Woman Playing a Guitar" (c. 1618) Oil on canvas Baroque Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

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Coiled serpent - Aztec, 15 century

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I was working on some other tasks and somehow landed on the animal figurine side of JSTOR (don't tell my manager).

May I offer you three conspiring jerboa figurines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art?