"Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow, introduces the exhibition, "Divine Encounter: Rembrandt's 'Abraham and the Angels," on view at The Frick Collection from May 30, 2017, through August 20, 2017."
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"More than 3,000 funerary portraits from ancient Palmyra survive in museums around the world, bringing us face to face with people who lived in Syria almost two millennia ago."
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"Take to the sky to explore the majestic vistas of The Met Cloisters. This branch of the Museum in northern Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park is dedicated to the art, architecture, and gardens of medieval Europe."
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"Immerse yourself in this 360° video capturing dawn to dusk in the Temple of Dendur. Built around 15 B.C. when the Roman Emperor Augustus ruled Egypt, the temple was a 1968 gift from Egypt to the United States in recognition of support given to save its monuments threatened by the Nile."
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"A preview of the exhibition Irving Penn Centennial April 24–July 30, 2017 at The Met, featuring Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Maria Morris Hambourg, Independent Curator and Former Curator in Charge, Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art."
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"A seminal figure in 20th-century design, the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) created a vast body of work, the result of an exceptionally productive career that spanned more than six decades. This exhibition will reevaluate Sottsass's career in a presentation of key works in a range of media—including architectural drawings, interiors, furniture, machines, ceramics, glass, jewelry, textiles and pattern, painting, and photography, in dialogue with ancient and contemporaneous objects that inspired him, as well as his influence on designers working today."
"In conjunction with the exhibition Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, on view June 13, 2017–February 4, 2018, this video features time-lapse photography of bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV installing The Gate (Mon) in The Met's Arts of Japan galleries."
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"Our Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale on 8 March in London features an outstanding selection of works which have laid in private collections for decades since execution. The opportunity to see them for the first time in public is thrilling."
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"In anticipation of the Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale in Hong Kong (May 30), Bonhams New York previews a rare and important pair of Qianlong Imperial blue and white Bajixiang Moonflasks (Estimate on Request). The flasks be viewed during Bonhams' Asia Week public preview, March 9-14."
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"'Arbre de Neige' was created in 1947 as one of a series of small scale works in richly colored paper with which the artist covered the walls of his studio at the Villa Le Rêve at Vence, in the south of France. Matisse had first used the technique to stunning effect in designing his pivotal print series Jazz, conceived during the war and published in 1947. Each element was cut with masterful certainty into heavy paper, a technique Matisse described as "drawing with scissors".
