1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art collection

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 2025-05-04

You could spend a day here and still not see half of it. It’s mind boggling. I have no particular nostalgic attachment to The Met from things like Night At The Museum, so I’m taking it as it is. Beyond the Caspar David Friedrich exhibition, we focus our time on the Greek and Roman collection (such marvellous statues, some really good album artwork material, not that that’s the only lens through which I appreciate art), but also the history of musical instruments, featuring what is presumably just the contents of Bill Bailey’s rehearsal space. The modern art collection impressed with a giant Jackson Pollock (“it restates the negativeness of the universe…”).