Author: Ben Richmond

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  Paul Klee: “Color and I Are One”

  September 1, 2016 | The 1914 trip to Tunisia that changed how Paul Klee saw and would use color.

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  Dogs of The Met

  August 26, 2016 | It would be enough if dogs were just man's best friend, but as a trip through The Met attests, they've been so much more

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  On “Washington Crossing the Delaware”

  July 4, 2016 | Celebrating Independence Day 2016 by remembering Christmas 1776

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  Happy Birthday, Mary Cassatt

  May 22, 2016 | No matter where you put it, the American painter's work stands out as exemplary.

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  The Rugs of Seljuqs

  April 29, 2016 | The Met’s spring exhibition, “Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs,” runs from April 27 to July 24, and it explores the artistically and culturally verdant period when a Turkish dynasty ruled in West Asia. An exclusive, limited run of rugs embodies the cross cultural exchange that the empire fostered from 1038 to 1307.

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  The Linear Thinking of Nasreen Mohamedi

  March 21, 2016 | Where detachment, photography, and drawing all take aim at the same notion.

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  From an Egyptian Tomb to a Tee: A History of William the Hippo

  February 16, 2016 | Described as “the friendliest thing in the world” by the man who named him, The Met’s famous Egyptian faience sculpture, William the Hippo, is not-so-secretly a symbol of chaos, whose existence is inextricably tied to literal matters of life and death

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  Reproducing the Sculpture of Rodin and Degas

  January 27, 2016 | Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas were contemporaries, but also, in a way, they were mirror opposites