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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...

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Break 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...

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Baseball 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...

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Baseball 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...

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How 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...

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Different 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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