The Artist Project: Kalup Linzy

Artist Kalup Linzy reflects on Édouard Manet in this episode of The Artist Project.

September 16, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"When looking at these Manet paintings, on a certain level I do think they're drag."

Kalup Linzy reflects on Édouard Manet in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Kalup Linzy, born in 1977, is an American video and performance artist.

A video still of a Black man wearing a dress and a blond wig with his head on another man's lap as they sit on a sofa

Kalup Linzy (American, born Clermont, Florida 1977)

Conversations wit de Churen V: As da Art World Might Turn, 2006.

Single-channel digital video, color, sound, 12 min., 10 sec. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, funds from various donors, 2012 (2012.250) © Kalup Linzy, 2006