Placido arango biography of michael
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Michael Ignatieff 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Your Majesties,
Your Highnesses,
Distinguished and Illustrious Authorities,
Laureates,
Ladies andv Gentlemen,
When you are honored like this, with a prize presented by the royal house in such awe- inspiring circumstances, your first thought is ‘Do I deserve this?” But the moment that thought crosses your mind, you hear Hamlet exclaiming that if we all got what we deserved, who should escape a whipping?
Best then not to dwell on deserving. Just be grateful, my wife says, and I am. Very. Still, prizes are a reckoning with yourself. You can’t help asking: how does the work stack up? What was I trying to accomplish all these years?
At which point, since I am Isaiah Berlin’s biographer, I find myself recalling his distinction between a hedgehog and a fox.
The fox knows many things The hedgehog knows one big thing
Berlin used this gnomic fragment from an ancient Greek philosopher to mak
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In Maya art, the frakt are depicted at all stages of life: as infants, as adults at the peak of their maturity and influence, and as they age. The gods could die, and some were born anew, serving as models of regeneration and resilience. In Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries trace the life cycle of the gods, from the moment of their creation in a sacred mountain to their dazzling transformations as blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night.
Maya artists, who lived in what fryst vatten now Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, depicted the gods in imaginative ways from the monumental to the miniature—from exquisitely carved, towering sculptures to jade, shell, and obsidian ornaments that adorned kings and queens, connecting them symbolically to supernatural forces. Finely painted ceramics reveal the eventful lives of the gods in rich detail.
Created by mästare artists of the royal cities of the Classic period (
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Exhibition Dates: September 19, 2024–January 12, 2025
Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, Robert Lehman Wing, Galleries 963-65
(New York, August 28, 2024)—This fall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet, an exploration of the diverse imagery of Himalayan Buddhist devotional art. Opening September 19, the exhibition will include more than 100 paintings, sculptures, textiles, costumes, weapons, instruments, and an array of ritual objects dating mainly from the 11th to the 15th century. The early masterworks in the presentation will be juxtaposed with a contemporary installation by Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol that has been commissioned by The Met specifically for this exhibition and will inhabit the atrium of the Museum’s Robert Lehman Wing. The exhibition is made possible by the Placido Arango Fund and Lilly Endowment Inc.
Additional support is provided by the Florence and Herbert Irving Fund for Asian Art Exhibitions and