Frank Lloyd Wright designed this pavilion as a living room and small concert space

"This was my first step into modernism, which after this I began to appreciate more and more."

"This was my first step into modernism, which after this I began to appreciate more and more."

Curator Amelia Peck on Frank Lloyd Wright's modern living room at The Met.

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Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.

Photography by Peter Zeray

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Edward MacDowell: Four Little Poems, Op. 32 performed by Phillip Sear
Archival photographs © Stereo-Travel Company
Architectural drawings © 2013 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Contributors

Amelia Peck
Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Decorative Arts and Supervising Curator, Antonio Ratti Textile Center

A green, yellow, and pink parrot's head, with a hinge at the base of its neck.
A closer look at the British enamels industry surfaces complex questions around consumerism, exploitation, and nationalism that continue to reverberate today.
Ella Mints
July 18
A collage of blurred images depicts people in various settings, with groups standing near structures and rocky landscapes. The mood is contemplative and somber.
I wept thinking of the many treks around prison rec yards I’d made with men whose crimes would never be forgiven, for whom freedom sometimes felt as unlikely as sainthood.
Reginald Dwayne Betts
June 24
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