Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the 2020 issue of the Metropolitan Museum Journal is now available at the University of Chicago Press website and the Met Store. PDF's are available for free on MetPublications.
Articles
Buddhism and Silk: Reassessing a Painted Banner from
Medieval Central Asia in The Met
MICHELLE C. WANG, XIN WEN, SUSAN WHITFIELD
Joris Hoefnagel’s Insects
MARJORIE SHELLEY
John Haberle’s A Bachelor’s Drawer:
Censorship, Geologic Time, and Truth
AMY WERBEL
“The Toughest, Meanest Art I Was Making”:
Edward Ruscha’s Books
DOUG EKLUND
An Ode to James Van Der Zee: Lorna Simpson’s 9 Props
EMILIE BOONE
Research Notes
Domesticated Partners: A New Analysis of a Sumerian Vessel
BAILEY E. BARNARD
Radiance and the Power of Erasure in an Obsidian Lamaštu Amulet
MIRIAM SAID
Ernst Herzfeld, Joseph Upton, and the Artaxerxes Phialai
HENRY P. COLBURN
New Insights into an Old Collection: Ptolemaic Pottery
from Hibis (Kharga Oasis)
JAMES C. R. GILL
A Bat and Two Ears and Jusepe de Ribera’s Triumphant Virtue
VIVIANA FARINA
Carmontelle’s Telltale Marks and Materials
MARGOT BERNSTEIN
The Met’s German Keyed Guitar
DANIEL WHEELDON
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Elizabeth L. Block, PhD (she/her/hers)
Senior Editor
Publications and Editorial Department
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Elizabeth L. Block