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There is a particular kind of exuberance that comes from standing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s glass-walled hall featuring the Temple of Dendur, watching sunlight glint off off the 2,000-year old sandstone temple, while a spindly, headless bronze woman, cast in 1932, stands in the same place where a statue of a god used...
Few in their lives will appreciate the apple half as much as Paul Cézanne. Though most known for pieces like The Basket of Apples, which surfaced just a decade before his death, Cézanne remarks that his fascination with the apple sparked as early as his boyhood. Cézanne was no docile child, often characterized as boisterous,...
We wear bell bottom jeans to reminisce about the 70s, listen to Radiohead and Nirvana to remember the edge of the 90s, and slip on low rise pants to briefly travel back to the party era of the early 2000s. Because of life’s natural tendency to disappoint us or to fall just below our expectations,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is considered to be the largest and most famous art museum in New York City. From extravagant events like the Met Gala to empowering functions like the Teens Take the Met, the museum provides celebrities, tourists, and common New Yorkers with an illustrious number of opportunities to tap into their...
Take a walk down Pearl Street today and you will notice quaint, four-story red-brick buildings peering over a European-esque cobblestone street, busy with the incessant Lower Manhattan foot traffic. Take the same walk four centuries ago, through a port street in the 1600s Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and the bulk of your observations would...
How have you spent your time in the last month? Major life events may have just surfaced in your mind, but what about the everyday moments in your daily routine? How do those moments build and what’s the point of it all? Nobel Prize recipient Thomas Mann explores this idea in his critically acclaimed novel...
Over the course of Marcel Duchamp’s extensive career, the conventional portion of it is certainly short lived. While Duchamp spent under a decade of his early art career painting with intense Fauvist, Cubist, and Impressionist influence, he quickly yearned to detach from the existing art world, and soon from the existence of art as a...
Every spring, millions of college graduates expect that hard work and a diploma will secure their professional future, but they are increasingly finding that the entry-level job market has vanished before they even receive their degrees. Often, this transition happens without the knowledge of the millions of workers it will affect most. Since the beginning...
Shinto is the indigenous religious tradition of Japan, though calling it a “religion” in the sense of Western religion isn’t accurate. It has no founder, no scripture in the canonical sense, no creed, and no fixed doctrine. Fundamentally, Shinto is the conviction that sacred presences (kami) are bound to particular places, objects, ancestors, and natural...
Having grown up on an Antiguan sugar plantation amidst the triangular trade and completed her early education in London — the economic epicenter of the British Empire — Eliza Lucas Pinckney was immersed in the proto-capitalist currents that shaped the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. While attending an elite boarding school in London, she spent holidays with...
