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Interview with Dita Amory, Curator and Co-author of Madame Cézanne

December 1, 2014

By Rachel High

Rachel High explores the enigmatic Hortense Fiquet with Madame Cézanne curator and catalogue co-author Dita Amory.

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Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck | Sunday at The Met

March 8

Curator Dita Amory, conservator Charlotte Hale, and scholar Patricia Berman explore Helene Schjerfbeck's artistic practice, career, and Nordic legacy.

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Rembrandt makes da Vinci's "The Last Supper" his own with this chalk study

April 24, 2013

By Dita Amory

"The density of lines enhances the extraordinary emotion of the moment."

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Exhibition Tour—Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

December 18, 2025

By Dita Amory and Max Hollein

Join Dita Amory, Robert Lehman Curator in Charge, Lehman Collection, and Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO, to virtually explore Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck.

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How Can Art Trick Our Minds?

October 20, 2023

Instead of mixing paint colors on a palette, what happens if we let our eyes do the mixing? Learn about Pointillism and how the artist Georges Seurat used the science of optics to create a whole new way of painting!

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Exhibition Tour—Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

November 9, 2023

By Dita Amory and Ann Dumas

Over an intense nine weeks in the summer of 1905 in the modest fishing village of Collioure on the French Mediterranean, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism.

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How to Make An Optical Illusion

October 20, 2023

Trick your friends with this optical illusion! Create an entire rainbow using only the primary colors — red, yellow, and blue dots.

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The Final Days: Five Portraits from Leonardo to Matisse

December 27, 2017

By Dita Amory and Alison Manges Nogueira

Curators Dita Amory and Alison Manges Nogueira discuss five portrait drawings from the exhibition Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection.

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Portuguese Azulejos and Quinta da Aveleda's Cellars

October 3, 2015

By Brooke Bates

Brooke Bates, development officer for Apollo Circle and Travel Program, recounts a lecture by Met Curator Dita Amory and the group's stop in Penafiel, Portugal.