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Essay

Trade and Commercial Activity in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Middle East

May 1, 2012

By Elizabeth Williams

Luxurious silks, spices, incense, and the like counted among the Byzantine and early Islamic period’s most desired goods.

editorial

Race, Justice, and Bias: An Activity for Connecting with the Young People in Your Life

July 2, 2020

By Julie Marie Seibert

It’s never too early to talk about race, justice, and bias with young people. It will likely require some homework on your part. First, you should take a moment to examine your own thoughts and feelings around the topics.

Press Release

Met Exhibition to Explore Francisco Goya’s Prolific Activity as a Draftsman and Printmaker through Approximately 100 Works from the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

editorial

Cryptogams in the Nooks and Crannies

January 9, 2015

By Caleb Leech

Caleb Leech, managing horticulturist at The Cloisters museum and gardens, explores the depiction of flora in the David Gerard painting The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard.

Essay

The Symposium in Ancient Greece

October 1, 2002

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

The Greek symposium was a male aristocratic activity, a tightly choreographed social gathering where men drank together, conversed, and enjoyed themselves in a convivial atmosphere.

video

Storytime with The Met: "Cat and Rat" with Ed Young

February 11, 2021

Join us for a picture-book reading and an activity connected to The Met collection. In this special edition, author and illustrator Ed Young reads _Cat and Rat_.

Essay

Blackwater Draw (ca. 9500–3000 B.C.)

October 1, 2000, revised September 1, 2007

By Laura Anne Tedesco

Blackwater Draw in eastern New Mexico, which evidences human activity from about 9500 to 3000 B.C., is one of the most important of the early hunter locations.

Essay

Body/Landscape: Photography and the Reconfiguration of the Sculptural Object

October 1, 2004

By Douglas Eklund

At the same time that some sculptors turned outward toward the wider landscape, others turned in upon their own bodies as both the subject and object of sculptural activity.

Essay

Baths and Bathing Culture in the Middle East: The Hammam

October 1, 2012

By Elizabeth Williams

Although today we think of bathing as a private activity, the public bath, or hammam, was a vital social institution in any Middle Eastern city for centuries before the advent of modern plumbing.

Essay

Nineteenth-Century Classical Music

October 1, 2004

By Jayson Kerr Dobney

In music, Romanticism, along with new opportunities for earning a livelihood as a musician or composer, produced two seemingly opposite venues as the primary places for musical activity—the large theater and the parlor.