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"Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg’s novel
From
the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. More than a few of us also
fantasized about running away to live in that vast cultural institution
like the book’s young protagonists Claudia and Jamie Kincaid. Yet among
other, more practical concerns, we might have wondered where we were going
to secure enough reading material to get us through those long after-hours
nights. Konigsburg had Claudia and Jamie visit the former Donnell Library
Center, but what about in the Met itself?
What we probably didn’t realize in our youth was that, in addition to
being a museum, the Met is a publisher. Now, at the MetPublications
digital archive, we can read a great variety of the books, guides, and
periodicals it’s put out for more than a century–from a 1911 catalog of
the museum’s collection of pottery, porcelain, and faïence (which refers
to pottery of the tin-glazed variety) to — as of this writing — the latest
issue of the Met’s
Bulletin, on Mexican printmakers including Diego
Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. They and the more than 1,600 publications
that lie between them are free for you to explore, some readable online, and
some downloadable in PDF form."
Via Esther Schindler.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics