Multiple meanings from a t-shirt seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
We saw this guy, below left, with the unusual t-shirt in the modern art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last weekend. While looking up this phrase, we found several meanings, the first of...
View ArticleBreak dancing battles in armor at The Met
The Metropolitan Museum Art has been hosting a series titled “Battle! Hip-Hop in Armor,” featuring break dancers from “It’s Showtime NYC!,” a group from Dancing in the Streets who “battle” wearing...
View ArticleBaseball cards at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A friend of mine was a bit surprised when I texted him from the Metropolitan Museum of Art the other day, telling him about an exhibition of baseball cards that I was seeing there. I think a lot of...
View ArticleBaseball cards and fine art
I mentioned seeing a selection of baseball cards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in my last post, but that wasn’t the only thing I saw on my visit to the museum last Saturday. I made my way through...
View ArticleHow to move a 3 ton sculpture: Athena Parthenos
This video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows how they recently installed a monumental statue of Athena Parthenos (ca. 170 B.C.), which comes in at 10 feet tall and weighing over 3 tons. This...
View ArticleDifferent Faces from Different Places
“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.” – Sir Thomas Browne“The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.” – Sir Walter Scott...
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