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Visualizing the Afterlife
Explore how artists across time and place have contemplated the afterlife.
Andrea Myers Achi and Akili Tommasino
May 17, 2024
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Who Were the Early Cycladic Figures?
Discover the fascinating history behind these enigmatic objects.
Joseph Alexander MacGillivray
January 24, 2024
a gold pectoral with coins and a pseudo-medallion that holds fourteen gold coins and two gold discs that are linked together and held by a large gold tube surrounding it.
Wearing Coins in Late Antiquity
Why were gold coins used as jewelry throughout the Byzantine Empire?
Stephanie Caruso
January 23, 2024
Three artists and one moderator sitting in modern grey chairs on a stage each holdings microphones with a red carpet underneath them. There is a projection screen behind them.
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Artists on Artworks—Africa & Byzantium
Join artists as they reflect on works in the exhibition Africa and Byzantium and make connections to their own artistic practices.
January 8, 2024
Limestone carving of a male and female figure
The Environmental Values of Early Buddhism
Buddhist Jataka stories, and the vibrant worlds they portray, offer insights into contemporary climate concerns.
Savita Monie
October 25, 2023
Medium frame of a large stone sculpture carved with the likeness of a seated Buddha surrounded by worshippers.
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Exhibition Tour—Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE
Explore Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE in this virtual tour of the exhibition.
August 3, 2023
New York Buddhist Vihara Foundation monks in prayer
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The New York Buddhist Vihara Monks
This video features Buddhist monks from the New York Buddhist Vihara Foundation chanting a blessing of suttas (sutras), the spoken word of the Buddha as preserved in the Sri Lankan tradition.
July 28, 2023
A woman stands on stage wearing a matching brown tunic and pants. Her arms are raised over her head with her palms pressed together.
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Bijayini Satpathy: Dohā
In her fifth and final performance as 2021-2022 MetLiveArts Artist in Residence, the incomparable choreographer and dancer Bijayini Satpathy built on her prior explorations of movement and art with “Dohā.”
May 29, 2023
A woman with grey hair and a black dress arches her back, tilts her head back, and raises her hands in a cupped position. She is in a building made of tan stone walls and columns with arched windows.
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Bijayini Satpathy in the Galleries: The Prayer
An exploration of the body in prayer, “The Prayer” was created especially for the Chapter House at The Met Cloisters, and is inspired by the site’s meditative architecture.
May 2, 2023
Image of Cecily Brown in her studio.
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Meet the Artist—Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid
Go behind the scenes with artist Cecily Brown, who discusses the inspiration and making of Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, the first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York since she made the city her home.
March 20, 2023