Museum objects

Excavated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition in 1914-15 at Thebes; allotted to the Museum by the Egyptian Government in the division of finds. Shipped to New York and accessioned by 1928

MUSEUMINSEL, BERLIN, GERMANY, 2003-2009

This is the first international loan exhibition to explore the sculptural art produced in the earliest kingdoms of Southeast Asia. From the first millennium onward, powerful kingdoms emerged in the region, embracing much of Indic culture to give political and religious expression to their identities. Early Hinduism (Brahmanism) and Buddhism arrived early, first witnessed by Sanskrit inscriptions, and shortly thereafter by a proliferation of large-scale religious imagery.

The collecting of anonymous objects — and the subsequent use of those objects in creating a perfectly styled interior — has become such a staple of modern life that it’s hard to remember a time when not everyone loaded up their vans twice a year at places like Brimfield. But Franco Clivio, a former industrial designer and a lecturer at Zurich’s Schule für Gestaltung, has been amassing such objects for more than four decades. His collection — which numbers into the thousands — is on view…

Dutch Invertuals has invited 45 of the designers it has worked with over the past nine years to reveal more than 800 objects from their archives.

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"The Damascus Room," an intact 18th-century reception room from an upper-class Syrian home. Fountain at "The Damascus Room" Moroccan courtyard with intricately carved arches and a fountain was created by Moroccan craftsmen specifically for The Met 11-foot high 14-century Iranian prayer niche Fountain created by Moroccan craftsmen specifically for The Met Islam-inspired art is the newest attraction at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the reopening of Islamic Art Galleries last Tuesday…