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Great Museums Webisodes
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An Inside Look, Part 1 (2:33 min.)
Helen C. Evans, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art, and Jeff Daly, the Museum’s senior design advisor, discuss the selection and installation of works of art that will be included in the exhibition “The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions.” An hourlong documentary on the making of the exhibition will be aired in spring 2009 as part of the public television series Great Museums, which produced this webisode.
An Inside Look, Part 2 (5:04 min.)
Helen C. Evans, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art, and Jeff Daly, the Museum’s senior design advisor, discuss the selection and installation of works of art that will be included in the exhibition “The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions.” An hourlong documentary on the making of the exhibition will be aired in spring 2009 as part of the public television series Great Museums, which produced this webisode.
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Recent Acquisitions: Tula Center Table (5:39 min.)
In this excerpt from the 2002 video Three-Dimensional, director Philippe de Montebello and curators Ian Wardropper and Wolfram Koeppe describe the Museum's fortuitous acquisition of an ornate center table from Tula, Russia, and the curators' subsequent research that led to a surprising discovery.
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Recent Acquisitions: Old Kingdom Recumbent Lion (5:07 min.)
In this excerpt from the 2000 video An Ancient Bestiary, director Philippe de Montebello and curator Dorothea Arnold discuss the unexpected discovery and acquisition of a monumental Egyptian sculpture from the Old Kingdom.