Art Across the Ages - Ori Z. Soltes

The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Instagram: "How many hours of audiobooks does it take to preserve this 18th-century silk textile? Meet Minsun Hwang, a conservator in The Met’s Department of Textile Conservation. Preparation for exhibition of this fragile, over-sized textile, required approximately 1,500 hours of steady work from November 2023 to July 2024. This monumental appliqué shows Manjushri with his identifying attributes—a sword and book on adjacent lotuses—riding a blue lion. Manchu ru

Ancestry on Instagram: "30 Rock’s Tina Fey is stunned by the striking family resemblance to her fifth great-grandfather, an English quilt maker whose artwork now hangs in the largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere: The Metropolitan Museum of Art."