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This enigmatic short film presents 50 Egyptian funerary portraits from the region of Fayum.
June 26, 2020
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The American sculptor George Grey Barnard—known as the “modern Michelangelo” for his ambitious, often larger-than-life marble sculptures—perfects several projects in this charming vignette, including two massive busts of Abraham Lincoln.
May 28, 2020
Take a deeper look at Flaherty’s enigmatic short and learn about the new score by Ben Model.
Christopher Alessandrini, Robin Schwalb, and Stephanie Wuertz
May 22, 2020
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Follow a pilgrimage across Europe to the shrine of Saint James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
May 21, 2020
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An elderly woman brings her granddaughter to a pottery studio in search of a new pitcher—but the mischievous youngster has other plans.
May 15, 2020
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A gem of analog animation, George Griffin’s Head offers a delightfully snarky and clever self-portrait of the artist as a not-so-young man, undone by his own cartoon surrogate.
May 8, 2020
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This outrageous and slyly self-aware documentary revisits The Costume Institute’s 1982 exhibition La Belle Époque, from the decadence in fin-de-siècle Paris through the global pandemonium of World War I.
May 1, 2020
Chief External Relations Officer Nancy Chilton takes a look back at the history of The Met Gala, from its inception in 1948 to the red carpet spectacle of today.
Nancy Chilton
April 30, 2020
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“We discovered that art history was not the best handle by which to reach a kid.”
April 24, 2020
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“Curator” comes from the Latin word “cura,” meaning “to take care.”
April 10, 2020