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Dream Logic by Joseph Scheier Dolberg
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“This is a guy who’s asking the question, ‘Who am I, and what am I supposed to do with my life?’”
Joseph Scheier-Dolberg
November 12, 2013
Idolized by Diana Craig Patch
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"This piece spoke to me when I realized, you don't need a single written word, three thousand years later, we can understand the same language."
Diana Craig Patch
September 10, 2013
Predator by Fiona Kidd
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"So rarely do we get a real snapshot of an individual."
Fiona Kidd
November 26, 2013
Two photo side by side, the left: sculpture of a giant spider with the city skyline blue, in the background. The image on the right is the artist, standing in between a sculpture.
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Go behind the scenes with artist Petrit Halilaj, who discusses with curator Iria Candela the inspiration and making of his 2024 Roof Garden Commission: Abetare.
May 7, 2024
Cracking the Code by Dirk Breiding
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"Art history is very much like detective work, and if you’re lucky there’s even a mystery to be solved."
Dirk H. Breiding
April 3, 2013
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Join curators Anna-Claire Stinebring and Joanna Seidenstein for a closer look at early Renaissance landscape painting in the newly renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.
July 10, 2024
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Join curators Stephan Wolohojian and Denise Allen for a closer look at Venetian painting and sculpture.
Stephan Wolohojian
May 29, 2024
Detail of a vibrant quilt made up of squares with narrow, rectangular strips of alternating colors.
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Threads of identity.
July 16, 2024
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Join curator Adam Eaker and conservator Dorothy Mahon as they discuss the restoration of Rembrandt’s Artistotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653, now on view in the renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.
July 31, 2024
Boy Geniuses by Timothy B. Husband
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"In the center of the book, they're struggling with their compositional arrangements, but as they progress, they become incredibly inventive."
Tim Husband
October 30, 2013