{"id":2446829,"date":"2026-06-05T19:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2446829"},"modified":"2026-06-05T19:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:33:21","slug":"met-museums-musical-bodies-blurs-humans-and-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/met-museums-musical-bodies-blurs-humans-and-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Museum\u2019s \u2018Musical Bodies\u2019 Blurs Humans and Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n
\n

Clap your hands. Tap a foot. Whistle. It doesn\u2019t even have to be a tune.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all musical, and it all comes from the human body. The body, in turn, has inspired the shape of instruments for as long as they\u2019ve existed, an observation that made the curator Bradley Strauchen-Scherer curious.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many instruments specifically reference the human body in their form or in their decoration, across cultures, from folk culture to pop culture to classical culture,\u201d said Strauchen-Scherer, who works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s department of musical instruments. \u201cWhat\u2019s going on here?\u201d<\/p>\n

That simple question eventually led to the exhibition \u201cMusical Bodies,\u201d<\/a> which opens at the Met on Sunday. The show contains objects from several thousands of years of history: paintings and prints, fashion and sculptures, and, of course, instruments. Connecting them all, Strauchen-Scherer said, is an exploration of \u201cthe human condition through the lens of music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOften we think about music as a very specialist thing,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes it gets branded as being elitist. But when we look at why people make music across time, it\u2019s in our DNA. It\u2019s absolutely fundamental to human survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n