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Reading Matisse by Rebecca Rabinow
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How to read a Matisse
"There are these gorgeous, sublime images, but there's also a sense of worry."
Rebecca Rabinow
March 27, 2013
Detail of Edgar Degas's "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet," with Edouard Manet lounging on his couch and his wife Suzanne at the piano. The painting has been cut in half vertically at Suzanne's face.
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Manet/Degas: A Podcast
Explore the legacy of Manet and Degas’s complicated relationship.
Ashley E. Dunn and Stephan Wolohojian
December 8, 2023
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Look Again:European Paintings—Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece
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
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
Man and woman standing in purple gallery as they look at painting
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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
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Inside Look: Nayarit House Models
Join curator Laura Filloy Nadal on a tour through ancient Nayarit house models, offering a unique window into life in West Mexico between 100 BCE and 200 CE.
September 24, 2024
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
The front view of a small, blue sculpture of a hippopotamus
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The Met's unofficial mascot—this tiny hippo named William—has a bit of a dark side
"A lot of us are inclined to only see his cute side, but in fact there is a lot more to him than that."
Isabel Stünkel
August 28, 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
Sea Change by Barbara Weinberg
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How Winslow Homer evokes the power of nature with just a few elements
“The sea is a universal realm, and it's a place that we don't really understand.”
H. Barbara Weinberg
June 5, 2013