Connections | The Metropolitan Museum of Art 10 Connections is an online community drawn exclusively from Metropolitan Museum of Art curators, conservators, educators, and many others who offer their personal perspectives on works of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's vast collection. Connections inspires fresh ways to approach art. en-us Introspection <p>Photographs curator Jeff Rosenheim contemplates interiority in art. </p> <p>I can scan the subway car and know who is thinking about their emotional present tense, and who is distracted.</p> Photographs curator Jeff Rosenheim contemplates interiority in art.

Introspection

"I can scan the subway car and know who is thinking about their emotional present tense, and who is distracted."

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]]> Endings <p>Senior advisor to the Director Chris Coulson looks for poetic endings in the Museum’s collection.</p> <p>I like that moment in the movies where the screen goes black and you’re suspended between the world of the film and the reality that’s going to return when the lights go up. </p> Senior advisor to the Director Chris Coulson looks for poetic endings in the Museum’s collection.

Endings

"I like that moment in the movies where the screen goes black and you’re suspended between the world of the film and the reality that’s going to return when the lights go up. "

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]]> Grief <p>Curator of European paintings Andrea Bayer traces her process of mourning after her parents’ recent deaths.</p> <p>It was a completely inner experience for me, as if I had been enclosed in one of those great hoods, completely wrapped in my own grief.</p> Curator of European paintings Andrea Bayer traces her process of mourning after her parents’ recent deaths.

Grief

"It was a completely inner experience for me, as if I had been enclosed in one of those great hoods, completely wrapped in my own grief."

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]]> Unstrung <p>Publisher and editor-in-chief Mark Polizotti on avenues of personal expression in art.</p> <p>I think that even within certain guidelines there are little moments of personal freedom.</p> Publisher and editor-in-chief Mark Polizotti on avenues of personal expression in art.

Unstrung

"I think that even within certain guidelines there are little moments of personal freedom."

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]]> The Master Class <p>Security officer Jack Laughner on lessons learned from great artists in the Met’s galleries.</p> <p>You have to get as close as you can. I get quite close and actually have to take my glasses off to see the incredible detail.</p> Security officer Jack Laughner on lessons learned from great artists in the Met’s galleries.

The Master Class

"You have to get as close as you can. I get quite close and actually have to take my glasses off to see the incredible detail."

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]]> The Embrace <p>Researcher of European painting Jennifer Meagher investigates the emotional intensity of physical closeness.</p> <p>Within an hour of my life as a dance student, I found myself in this intimate embrace with a room full of strangers.</p> Researcher of European painting Jennifer Meagher investigates the emotional intensity of physical closeness.

The Embrace

"Within an hour of my life as a dance student, I found myself in this intimate embrace with a room full of strangers."

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]]> Brooding <p>Managing editor Mike Sittenfeld on how
thinking deeply about life’s meaning
amplifies our experience.</p> <p>There’s something at stake when you are contemplating or wondering or worrying. You’re trying to figure out just what it is that’s important to you.</p> Managing editor Mike Sittenfeld on how
thinking deeply about life’s meaning
amplifies our experience.

Brooding

"There’s something at stake when you are contemplating or wondering or worrying. You’re trying to figure out just what it is that’s important to you."

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]]> Physics <p>Registrar Aileen Chuk gets work advice from ancient craftsmen.</p> <p>It’s like a facedown. Take a fifty-six-foot column, put me in front of it, and ask me to move it.</p> Registrar Aileen Chuk gets work advice from ancient craftsmen.

Physics

"It’s like a facedown. Take a fifty-six-foot column, put me in front of it, and ask me to move it."

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]]> The Bedroom <p>Photographs curator Jeff Rosenheim discusses
the charged meaning of the bedroom, and its
resonance in all stages of life.</p> <p>It’s about the beauty of the flesh and the potential for life. </p> Photographs curator Jeff Rosenheim discusses
the charged meaning of the bedroom, and its
resonance in all stages of life.

The Bedroom

"It’s about the beauty of the flesh and the potential for life. "

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]]> Flux <p>Art history fellow Annie Labatt reflects on her
never-ending travels.</p> <p>I’m in a moment in my life where things are rather unstable.</p> Art history fellow Annie Labatt reflects on her
never-ending travels.

Flux

"I’m in a moment in my life where things are rather unstable."

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