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Vogue Magazine Creates Short Music Videos Of Stars From 2018’s Met Gala
The Met Gala – an event hosted to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute – is one of the biggest events in New York’s social calendar, where fashion designers showcase some of their best creations worn by various stars. This year’s theme was ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’. Celebrities showed up…
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Hilarious Photo Series Shows Us What Famous Artworks See All Day & Night
While paintings and sculptures are the center of attraction in any museum, it appears that their lives (if they had lives) are not as glamorous as we thought they’d be. In his series ‘What They See’, filmmaker and artist Masashi Kawamura went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and took pictures showing the…
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Images Online
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released a vast archive of 400,000 (mostly) hi-resolution digital images online that you can download and use for non-commercial purposes. From a 12-megapixel scan of Rembrandt’s 1660 self-portrait to over 18,000 photos spanning almost two centuries. Here are a few quick gems from the Photography collection, see also: Arms & Armor, Modern and Contemporary Art, and other highlights. Kinder in einem…