Curls

Wolfram Koeppe

August 8, 2013

2 min. watch

This video is part of 82nd and Fifth, a series that invites curators from across the Museum to talk about an artwork that changed the way they see the world.

“It was a great mystery: who he is, who made it.”

Curator Wolfram Koeppe on an early-eighteenth-century sculpture of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov by an unknown artist.

Contributors

Wolfram Koeppe
Marina Kellen French Senior Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Photography by Mark Morosse

Rights and Permissions:
No 2: The Old Castle (II vechio castello) and No 4: Bydlo (A Polish Ox-cart)
from Pictures from an Exhibition by Musorgsky played by Nikolai Demidenko
courtesy of Hyperion Records Ltd, London (www.hyperion-records.co.uk)