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Image for Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
In Self-Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed, the elderly Edvard Munch stands like a sentinel in his bedroom/studio surrounded by the works that constitute his artistic legacy. A powerful meditation on art, mortality, and the ravages of time, this haunting painting conjures up the Norwegian master’s entire career. It also calls into question certain long-held myths surrounding Munch—that his work declined in quality after his nervous breakdown in 1908–9, that he was a commercially naive social outsider, and that he had only a limited role in the development of European modernism. The present volume aims to rebut such misconceptions by freshly examining this enigmatic artist. In the preface, the renowned novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard considers Munch as a fellow creative artist and seeks to illuminate the source of his distinctive talent. The four groundbreaking essays that follow present numerous surprising insights on matters ranging from Munch’s radical approach to self-portraiture to his role in promoting his own career. They also reveal that Munch has been an abiding inspiration to fellow painters, both during his lifetime and up to the present; artists as varied as Jasper Johns, Bridget Riley, Asger Jorn, and Georg Baselitz have acknowledged his influence. More than sixty of Munch’s paintings, dating from the beginning of his career in the early 1880s to his death in 1944, are accompanied by a generous selection of comparative illustrations and a chronology of the artist’s life. The result is an intimate, provocative study that casts new light on Munch’s unique oeuvre—an oeuvre that Knausgaard describes as having gone “where only a painting can go, to that which is beyond words, but which is still part of our reality.”
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The Changing Face of Art

May 17, 2013

By Ethan

Teen Advisory Group Member Ethan discusses the contrast in the late nineteenth century between works done in the academic, Salon-accepted tradition and those of the Impressionists.
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Changing the Conversations among Our European Paintings

July 10, 2018

By Keith Christiansen

Curator Keith Christiansen takes a fresh look at Jacques Louis David's The Death of Socrates after its new installation in gallery 631.
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Military Music in American and European Traditions

October 1, 2004

By Jayson Kerr Dobney

In Euro-American culture, drums ordered the daily lives of the average soldiers, providing cadences for marching and signals for battle, as well as marking routine activities such as meal and bed time.
Image for How to Make a Botanical Drawing
Celebrate the changing of the seasons with a botanical drawing exercise that focuses on composition and building shapes through simplified forms.
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A Perfect Platform, Part Two: Outside the Walls

August 13, 2015

By Bryan Stevenson

Gardener Bryan Stevenson details the recent creation of a new hops bed outside the walls of The Cloisters museum and gardens.
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The "Number One Bill Clinton" Tenor Saxophone

June 30, 2015

By Deborah Check Reeves

Guest blogger Deborah Check Reeves reflects on the 1994 donation by President Bill Clinton of an L.A. Sax Company Presidential Model saxophone, currently on view in Celebrating Sax: Instruments and Innovation, to the National Music Museum.
Image for State bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire

Date: ca. 1698
Accession Number: 68.217.1a

Image for Reproduction hangings for state bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire

Date: ca. 1698 originals; 1990s reproductions
Accession Number: 68.217.1(reproductions)

Image for Panel with grotesques, from a set of bed hangings

related to the prints of Cornelis Floris II (Netherlandish, Antwerp before 1514–1575 Antwerp)

Date: ca. 1550–60
Accession Number: 41.100.385

Image for Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale)

Georges Jacob (French, Cheny 1739–1814 Paris)

Date: ca. 1782–83
Accession Number: 23.235a

Image for Embroidered bed curtain

Date: 1670–1700
Accession Number: 40.88a–f

Image for Bed steps (Marchepied de lit)

possibly by Jean Baptiste Boulard (French, 1725–1789)

Date: late 18th century
Accession Number: 2008.116

Image for Bed valances and side curtains

Date: ca. 1700
Accession Number: 53.2.1–.8

Image for Reproduction Bedstead with curtains

Accession Number: HR.2009.1

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Ruth Culver Coleman (died 1801)

Date: ca. 1760–75
Accession Number: 61.48.2

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Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese, 1796–1858)

Date: 1857
Accession Number: 2015.300.98