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Old Masters

Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth, Greek, Hellenistic period

City on a Hill

Thanks to a historic collaboration between the Met and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, an almost unbelievably rich trove of Hellenistic antiquities has come to New York.

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James Chapin, Boy, That’s Tobacco, 1942

American Art By Mail

How one company brought fine art into homes across the country.

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Biedermeier sewing table with lyre base

Birth of the Modern

Intended as interior design for the “common man,” so-called Biedermeier style turned out to be uncommonly prescient.

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Crescent-shaped Kendi, Ming dynasty

White Gold Dialogues

An exhibition of Chinese ceramic at the Met calls traditional categories of export and non-export into question.

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László Moholy-Nagy, A 19, 1927

Language of Light

A Guggenheim retrospective of László Moholy-Nagy examines the full breadth of the Bauhaus artist’s oeuvre.

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Gregory Nangle, Forrest Bowl, 2015

Designs of the Times

As the barrier between design and fine art crumbles, today’s artist-designers are giving their imaginations free rein.

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Claudio Bravo, Onions, 2002

The Collector

Claudio Bravo used Old Master-inspired techniques to create a modern and very personal body of work in which the roles of artist and collector seem to merge.

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Le Nain, The Last Supper, 1650s

Brother Act

The realistic yet mysterious paintings of the Le Nain brothers get a rare showing at the Kimbell Art Museum.

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Nancy Youngblood, carved miniature pottery jar

Out of the Earth

Contemporary Native American ceramicists take the refinement of traditional art and add another ingredient—innovation.

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