Facebook video from the Arms and Armour Department of the Met in New York - shared by Vince Cholewa, 1 January 2026

Wow! If I ever get to New York I’m going to the Met. An entertaining and thoughtful short video by Laurie Anderson in the Arms and Armour Department of the Metropolitan Museum. Henry VIII’s armour, elegant cooper-alloy chain mail stamped with five names connected with Allah, and reminiscing about how much fun she and her late husband, Lou Reed, had hanging out on Friday nights in the Arms and Armour Department at the Met. ‘Why go to a museum?’ Anderson asks, and replies, ‘For me the point is to learn to be in the world in a better, bigger way … I walk out differently to the way I walked in.’

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 

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It’s difficult to pick a favorite object in The Met collection, but New York artist Laurie Anderson finds herself making a beeline for a copper alloy chain mail armor in our Arms and Armor galleries whenever she visits.

Join her as she contemplates the ways objects imprint on us and the charges they carry through time.

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Thanks Vince. Now to dig out my Laurie Anderson cassette!!!

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