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Exhibition Tour—Manet/Degas
Join Stephan Wolohojian, John Pope-Hennessy Curator in Charge, and Ashley Dunn, Associate Curator, to virtually explore Manet/Degas.
Ashley E. Dunn
October 10, 2023
Startled by John Carpenter
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How this taxidermy deer covered with crystals changes the way we look at reality
"Your perception of reality, your normal expectations of how you view things, is completely confounded."
John T. Carpenter
May 29, 2013
Threshold by Keithc Christiansen
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Why is the virgin Mary so sad in this piece?
"It’s an expression that can be dead, unless we engage ourselves in it."
Keith Christiansen
March 13, 2013
Enamored by Sean Hemingway
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How this Ancient Greek sculpture captures the purity of love
"It’s so quiet that you don’t think of it as so radical, but actually it’s very rare and unusual to show a god sleeping."
Séan Hemingway
March 6, 2013
Collage of three images black and white one of a outline of a black face, the third a black background with white text, and the last a painting depictions of a party.
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The Leonard A. Lauder Distinguished Scholar Lecture—Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined
Join scholar Richard J. Powell as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and aesthetic lens of African American art. Artists such as Dudley Murphy, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Mickalene Thomas, and Nina Chanel Abney use angular and fractured forms that resonate with the cultural effects of ragtime, jazz, hip-hop, and other Black performing arts traditions.
Richard J. Powell
July 10, 2024
Snapshot by Marsha Hill
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This Egyptian statue is reminiscent of a family photo
"You start saying, 'Who were they, and what are their personalities?'"
Marsha Hill
August 14, 2013
Image of the artist cecily brown in front of an abstraction.
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An Evening with Cecily Brown
Join artist Cecily Brown and Met curator Adam Eaker for a conversation about Brown’s engagement with art history, influences from The Met collection, and her own singular artistic practice.
Adam Eaker
June 25, 2023
Two women in opulent dress and jewelry sit facing each other on a patterned carpet
Painted with Beetles
Shimmering jewels in Pahari School paintings.
Olivia Dill and Marina Ruiz Molina
May 27
Two people admire a framed portrait of a woman in a black gown against a dark backdrop. The gallery setting is elegant and contemplative.
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Exhibition Tour—Sargent and Paris
Join Stephanie Herdrich, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings & Drawings, and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, Curator of Drawings and Paintings, Musée D’Orsay, Paris, and Paul Perrin, Director of Conservation and Collections, Musée D’Orsay,Paris, to virtually explore Sargent and Paris.
May 8
Playing from Memory by Eric Kjellgren
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The ancestor's voice emerges from the slit in the gong when it is played
"The ancestors, in a sense, are of the human world, watch over human activities, but are also connected with the larger workings of the cosmos."
Eric Kjellgren
May 8, 2013