Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger's Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 8 January-11 April 2016). Exhibition publication Ricky Jay, Matthias Buchinger: ‘The Greatest German Living’. Los Angeles: Siglio, 2016. 160pp,

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 790-798
Author(s):  
Asa Simon Mittman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Reframing Islamic Art for the 21st Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Bier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art

<p>The celebrated Islamic galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reopened in 2011 as “Galleries for the Art of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.” Other major collections of Islamic art have been reorganized and reinstalled in Berlin, Cairo, Cleveland, Copenhagen, Detroit, Kuwait, London, Los Angeles, Paris, and Singapore, and new museums of Islamic art have been established in Doha, Qatar; Honolulu, Hawaii; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Sharjah, U.A.E. In addition, the first museum in North America dedicated to Islamic art recently opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This article explores this global phenomenon, identifying it as both a literal and conceptual “reframing of Islamic art for the 21st century,” setting the world stage for new developments in cultural understanding.</p><p><em><strong>Keywords:</strong></em> Islamic art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Art of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia”</p>

scholarly journals Repatriation of Cultural Property–Who Owns the Past? An Introduction to Approaches and to Selected Statutory Instruments

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Roehrenbeck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Public Television ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Press

Should cultural property taken by a stronger power or nation remain with that country or should it be returned to the place where it was created? Since the 1990s this question has received growing attention from the press, the public and the international legal community. For example, prestigious institutions such as the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have agreed to return looted or stolen artwork or antiquities. British smuggler Jonathan Tokeley-Parry was convicted and served three years in prison for his role in removing as many as 2,000 antiquities from Egypt. Getty director Marion True defended herself against charges that she knowingly bought antiquities that had been illegally excavated from Italy and Greece. New books on the issue of repatriation of art and antiquities have captured the attention of the public. A documentary based on one of these books was shown in theaters and aired on public television. The first international academic symposium on the topic was convened in New York City in January 1995.

On white marble half-lotus meditation statues carved in Wuding Era of the Eastern Wei Dynasty

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-194
Author(s):  
Hyun-Sook So
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
White Marble ◽  
City Area ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Made In ◽  
Wei Dynasty

Abstract In 2012, large amounts of white marble Buddhist statues of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties were unearthed from the Buddhist sculpture hoard at Bei Wuzhuang in Ye City Site. This paper makes a comparative study on a bodhisattva statue in meditation seated in half-lotus posture (resting right ankle on the knee of pendent left leg and holding right hand upward) among them and another sculpture of the same type and made in the same period unearthed at the Xiude Monastery site in Dingzhou; from the double-tree, stupa and coiling dragon designs shown by them, this paper explores the commonalities and differences of the Buddhist arts in these two areas. Moreover, this paper reveals that this motif emerged earlier in the Ye City area than in the Dingzhou area, and diffused to the latter after it became popular in the Ye City area. By these conclusions, this paper infers that the white marble meditating statue seated in half-lotus position with the date of the second year of Wuding Era (544 CE) in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA was produced in Ye City area.

The museum's mummies: an inside view

1970 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David T Miniberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Noninvasive Technique ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
Cat Scan ◽  
Museum Staff ◽  
Inside View

We have performed CAT scan imaging of the thirteen mummies in the New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This noninvasive technique allowed us to ascertain the age (+/- 5 years), the height and the sex of these individuals. In two cases we were able to establish the cause of death – one man dying as the result of trauma and one woman dying of sepsis secondary to an abscess in the mandible. We discovered two necklaces of amulets on one of the mummies and integrating the CAT scan images, we were able to identify the amulets. These two necklaces had previously been unknown to the museum staff. In one instance, the museum has the encaustic portrait mask in place on the mummy itself, so we were able to compare the portrait with the CAT scan image of the mummy and establish that in this particular case the image was a true portrait rather than an idealized portrayal of the person.

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