{"id":10124,"date":"2015-04-11T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T20:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=10124"},"modified":"2015-04-11T16:22:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T20:22:32","slug":"make-dos-at-the-met-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=10124","title":{"rendered":"Make-do’s at the MET, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week\u00a0I took a stroll through one of my favorite spots\u00a0in Manhattan, The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art<\/a> at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. If the Smithsonian Museum is known as\u00a0“The Nation’s Attic”, then I’d like to christen\u00a0the Luce Center “The City’s Yard\u00a0Sale” as\u00a0it is packed from floor to ceiling with glass showcases filled with over 18,000\u00a0tchotchkes, including Tiffany lamps, Shaker boxes and Revere silver. This impressive\u00a0collection of the museum’s overflow allows the public to research and take a peek into the MET’s closets. If you look closely among the rare Chinese porcelain and early English pottery\u00a0you will find\u00a0dozens of pieces\u00a0in various states of disrepair including\u00a0visible cracks, chips, worn paint and missing parts.<\/p>\n

Here are some of my favorite make-do’s, all hoping to one day escape the confines of the study center’s curio cabinets and be placed alongside their more presentable friends\u00a0in the “big house.”<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week\u00a0I took a stroll through one of my favorite spots\u00a0in Manhattan, The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. If the Smithsonian Museum is known as\u00a0“The Nation’s Attic”, then I’d like to christen\u00a0the Luce Center “The City’s Yard\u00a0Sale” as\u00a0it is packed from floor to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[15,87,7,19,32,44,40,16,100,120],"class_list":["post-10124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotal","tag-blue-white","tag-bronze","tag-chinese","tag-english","tag-glass","tag-metal-base","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain","tag-pottery","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10161,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions\/10161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}