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Basement find. I love how the 90s Henson releases had Kermit green cases. #Muppets #DarkCrystal #VHS

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Max Beckmann, The Old Actress, 1926. #TheMet #Beckmann

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Salvador Dali, Madonna, 1958. An optical illusion with veiled iconography of The Madonna. #TheMet #Dali

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Autumn Landscape, Tiffany Studios, NewYork, 1923. Window design attributed to Agnes Northrop. #TheMet #Tiffany

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Pablo Picasso, Reading at a Table, 1934. #TheMet #Picasso

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Ted Williams & Mel Ott. Baseball cards from the Goudey Gum Company, 1939. #TheMet #Baseball

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Terracotta stirrup jar with Octopus decoration. Mycenaean, Late Helladic, 1200-1100 BCE. #TheMet #AncientBluesky

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Margareta Haverman, A Vase of Flowers, 1716. #TheMet

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Vincent Van Gogh, Irises, 1890. #VanGogh #TheMet

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Cylinder seal with male worshipper, dog, and Sumerian cuneiform. 1595-1300 BCE. Excavated Carnelian, Iraq. #AncientBluesky #Mesopotamia #TheMet

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That #Eagles game was a thriller. I love #SaquonBarkley #flyEaglesfly

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Paul Cezanne. View of Domaine Saint-Joseph, late 1880s. #TheMet #Cezanne

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Cylinder seal with hunting scene and Akkadian cuneiform inscription. 2250-2150 BCE. Excavated Chert, Iraq. #AncientBluesky #Mesopotamia #TheMet

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Johannes Vermeer. Study of a Young Woman, 1665-67. #TheMet #Vermeer

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Antigone Pouring Libation over the Corpse of Her Brother Polynices, William Henry Reinhart, 1870. #TheMet #Antigone

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Winold Reiss. Langston Hughes, 1925. Pastel on Illustration board. #NationalPortraitGallery #SmithsonianInstitution on loan to #TheMet #HarlemRenaissance

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Claude Monet. View of Vetheuil, 1880. #Monet #TheMet

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Claude Monet. Landscape: The Parc Monceau, 1876. #Monet #TheMet

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Goblet decorated with wading birds. Tepe Sialk Iran, 4000-3700 BCE. #AncientBluesky #TheMet

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Sonam Gyaltsen artist, Thousand Armed Chenresi a Cosmic Form of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Central Tibet 1430 CE. Copper alloy with gilding. #TheMet #Tibet #Bodhisattva

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Sumerian standing worship figures. The male figure is gypsum alabaster excavated at Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna) from the temple of Abu, dated 2900-2600 BCE. The female figure is limestone excavated at Nippur from the temple of Inanna, dated 2600-2500 BCE. #AncientBluesky #Mesopotamia #TheMet

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Vincent Van Gogh, Cypresses 1889. The famous pebble in painting is located in the lower left corner. #VanGogh #TheMet

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Happy Birthday to John Singer Sargent, born Jan 12, 1856. Portrait of Madame X at The Met. The overhead lights left quite a glare, so I shot the photo from an angle. #TheMet

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Woman in White, 1923, Pablo Picasso. #TheMet #Picasso

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Tenzing Rigdol’s Biography of a Thought. Four wall sized panels at the center of The Met’s special exhibition “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet”. #TheMet #Tibet

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John Singer Sargent, The Hermit, 1908. #Sargent #TheMet

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Wall relief fragment with Assyrian soldiers in gypsum alabaster. Excavated at Nineveh, dated to the reign of Sennacherib 704-681 BCE. #AncientBluesky #Assyria #TheMet

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Venice from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, 1835. #TheMet

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Honus Wagner. American Tobacco Company 1909-11. #TheMet

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Maurice de Vlaminck, Boats on the Seine at Chatou, 1906. Part of The Met’s Lehman collection. #TheMet

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Terracotta kylix featuring a chariot scene between the eyes. Attributed to Nikosthenes the Potter 530 BCE. I love picturing this cup being used at a symposium where a drunk Greek would flash his “owl eyes”. #TheMet #AncientBluesky

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Corinthian type bronze helmet. Sicily, early 5th century BCE. #TheMet #AncientBluesky

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Joseph Wright, Virgil’s Tomb by Midnight with Silius Italicus Declaiming 1779. #TheMet

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Vincent van Gogh, Wheatfield with Cypresses 1889. Easily my favorite van Gogh, it’s so 3D in person. #VanGogh #TheMet

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Striding figure with Ibex horns. Copper alloy found in SW Iran. Dated 3100-2900 BCE. #BronzeAge #TheMet

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Christmas Tree with 18th century Florentine nativity figures. #TheMet

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Georges Seurat. View of the Seine 1882-83. #Seurat #TheMet

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Judgement of Paris. Attic terracotta amphora 540 BCE. #TheMet

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Waterfall at Monte-Dore by Achille-Etna Michallon 1818. #TheMet

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Sushi platter at Bar Masa at Columbus Circle. #NYC

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