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A Restored Painting Brings Back a Subject That Was Previously Covered Up, An Enslaved Child Named Bélizaire
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Blooming Poppies Dinner Plate Set
$280.00
Produced for The Heirloom Project—designer Madeline Weinrib’s initiative to honor the 10th anniversary of the Islamic Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and to preserve historic techniques and design principles through …
Monopoly: The Met Edition
$50.00
Imagined in collaboration with NYC’s momentous Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monopoly: The Med Edition incorporates attributes from 5,000 years of art history. This variation on the classic board game weaves in components …
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Celebrating trans love, the return of a design icon, maps from the mind, ancient inventions gain new life and more
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The Chemist Preserving The Met’s Art Collection
“Conservation started by looking at how to treat objects that have been damaged… Now we’re thinking about how to set up displays and storage so that kind of damage doesn’t happen in …
Via wired.com
The Met Explains its New Visual Identity
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently unveiled a new visual identity that, besides a new logo, presents a revamped color palette and typographic language. The new logo—which simply bears the museum’s longtime …