Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2013
The Metropolitan Museum has a long history of making its collections accessible to blind and partially sighted visitors through touch and description. In the 1970s, the Museum established the Touch Collection, a group of small artworks from different curatorial departments, for the purpose of tactile exploration by blind and partially sighted visitors. Since 1998, these visitors have been invited to engage with a range of Museum objects through touch tours—guided or self-guided visits in which they can explore specific objects with their hands. For several years, photographer Matt Ducklo has captured participants on these tours at the Metropolitan and other museums, creating a body of work that explores how all people—both sighted and otherwise—experience art. I interviewed Matt about his work and how it has affected his own experience of looking at art.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Twenty-five digital artists and programmers descended upon the Metropolitan Museum's Art Studio on June 1 and 2 for our first 3-D scanning and printing Hackathon.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2011
«Since its debut on January 5, Connections has allowed tens of thousands of viewers to become acquainted with members of our staff. Each episode sparkles with the personality of a narrator who weaves together works of art from the Met's collections, based on a theme that he or she finds particularly inspiring. Our viewers have been inspired as well.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Jean Antoine Watteau's Mezzetin is among the Museum's most evocative works. Katharine Baetjer, curator in the Department of European Paintings, spoke with me about this small, striking painting.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
On view in the Musical Instruments galleries is an arresting stringed object, an armadillo shell for its back. Ken Moore, the Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of Musical Instruments, spoke with me about this work.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
The signature image of the exhibition Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (closing August 15) is the Seated Harlequin, a masterpiece painted by Picasso when he was just nineteen years old. Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, spoke with me about the painting's imagery and style, as well as recent discoveries made by Metropolitan Museum conservators.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Thursday, August 5, 2010
Among the gorgeous garments on display in the exhibition American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (closing August 15) is an exquisite black evening dress attributed to Madame Marie Gerber of the house of Callot Soeurs. I spoke with Andrew Bolton, curator in the Met's Costume Institute, about the dress's bold design and glamorous, influential owner.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
The exhibition Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997) showcases a rich body of material that offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of a traditional Chinese artist. I spoke with Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator in the Museum's Department of Asian Art, about Hosta and Asters, one of the many stunning works on view.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
This beautiful sculpture, a representation of the boy-king Tutankhamun, is among the nearly sixty objects featured in the current exhibition Tutankhamun's Funeral. I spoke with Dorothea Arnold, the Lila Acheson Wallace Chairman of the Department of Egyptian Art, about the significance and style of this work.
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