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How many millions have climbed the Great Staircase since Tiepolo’s Triumph of Marius was unrolled from its giant storage drum in 1965?
Hugh Raffles
September 26
“During my ten years of working as a guard at The Met, no picture rewarded my attention as consistently.”
Patrick Bringley
September 3
Writer and scholar Sven Spieker considers how student graffiti in Southeastern European elementary schools inspired Petrit Halilaj’s rooftop commission.
Sven Spieker
August 23
Despite its grandeur, the monument seemed so personal, so intimate and melancholic.
Rick Riordan
June 11
They say we are given a face at birth that we must live with initially, but by a certain age, we make our own face and then we must live with that.
David Levi Strauss
May 20
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I am startled by the intimacy the mural grants us.
Major Jackson
March 22
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For me the photograph speaks to optical illusion, to ambiguity, to the blurring of immediate impressions and assumptions.
Carl Phillips
March 12
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This painting was different from the work I knew: it seemed somehow vaster than the landscapes, deader than the bones.
Maggie Millner
March 1
The writer Manijeh Moradian reflects on the unruly forms of Nairy Baghramian's facade commission.
Manijeh Moradian
December 22, 2023
Learn how Picasso’s defining portrait of Gertrude Stein helped usher in a new era of modern art and literature.
Francesca Wade
November 22, 2023