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Originating between the years 2381-2323 B.C., this ancient Egyptian chamber can be rented on Airbnb for $499 a night on weeknights and $599 on weekends.
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Purchased in 2004 for $50 million, art critics agree, for that kind of money, it should’ve had some nudity.
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This triptych painting by Patinir’s includes 10 mistakes for the viewer to discover. Can you find them all? (Flip the triptych upside down to see the answers!)
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The Temple of Dendur has been housed at the Met ever since it was constructed as set dressing for the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally.
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Painted in 1851, this unmistakably American painting shows the moment just before three men scrapped the homemade menu and went to Boston Market.
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Shortly after capturing this iconic image of dancers preparing in the dressing room of the grand Paris Opéra, Degas was discovered behind a curtain and forcibly told to leave.
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This bad boy has been sitting in the lost-and-found bin since 1580.
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It is totally free to see the outside of the museum, and you should be able to just hang out there for a pretty long time before someone asks you to move along. Just throwing that out there.
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This magnificent Assyrian work is thought to date from a time before sculptors had any idea what a human being looked like.
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This piece demonstrates the beliefs of Ancient Egyptians about the afterlife, the importance of the Book of the Dead during the Armana Period, and it also looks really great illuminated by the soda machine down the hall.
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Stationed outside the front entrance, this installation is a commentary on the absurdities of commerce in and around the art world.
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There is a toilet on the second floor that you can piss and shit in.
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Cézanne would pose as a painter, innocently capturing a friendly card game on canvas—all the while making note of each player’s tell until it was his turn to play a hand.
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This accurate rendering of a female queen has helped art historians determine that women started forming heads circa 270 - 250 B.C. and that it would be centuries until they started developing other body parts.
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Kind of tacky, but it’s on the wall just in case he comes by.
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The holy grail itself, Alan Alda has lived in the Met since curators transferred him from the Guggenheim in 1962.
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Renoir is known for his masterpieces of impressionism created primarily by sneaking up on confused women and quickly painting them before they could run away
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This 1890 work by Cézanne comes from the height of what historians refer to as his “Boring Period.”
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If he belongs to you, please retrieve him immediately from the Egyptian wing.
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The real artist here is Gary with that panini press. Stop by the café for one of your own today!
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What more can we say?
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