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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition Podcast
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's official podcast features exclusive commentary on our world-renowned special exhibitions, as well as curatorial insights into individual masterpieces, artists' discussions of their work, and explorations of a wide variety of art-related topics. Visit www.metmuseum.org/podcast for more information.
Last Update: 2010-02-16
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1. 067 Special Exhibition: A Musical Settin...Curator Carmen Bambach talks to composer Bruce Adolphe about how he translated the art and ideas of Agnolo Bronzino—whose drawings are on view in the current exhibition "The Drawings of Bronzino"—into music. The world premiere of Adolphe's new piece, Of Art and Onions: Homage to Bronzino (commissioned by Palazzo Strozzi in Florence), will be performed at the Metropolitan Museum on Saturday, March 6, 2010. 2/16/2010 2. 066 New Acquisition: Messerschmidt's A H...European Sculpture and Decorative Arts chairman Ian Wardropper comments on the powerful new acquisition A Hypocrite and Slanderer. This bust was created by the Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) for his series of character heads, depicting different states of mind and pointing the way toward a modern sensibility. 2/8/2010 3. 065 Special Exhibition: The Drawings of ...Curator Carmen Bambach discusses the life and work of the painter, draftsman, teacher, and poet Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) on the occasion of the first exhibition ever devoted to him. 1/18/2010 4. 064 American Stories: Paintings of Every...Joyce Mendelsohn and Annie Polland—two historians of New York’s Lower East Side—discuss Cliff Dwellers, George Bellows's 1913 depiction of the neighborhood, now on view in the exhibition “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915.” 1/4/2010 5. 063 High School Intern Episode: Artemisi...This special episode about Artemisia Gentileschi’s Esther before Ahasuerus, written and performed by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's summer 2009 high school interns, includes commentary by a curator, an educator, and a conservator from the Met. 12/28/2009 6. 062 American Stories: Paintings of Every...New York Times columnist Mark Bittman and restaurateur Danny Meyer discuss John Sloan's painting Chinese Restaurant, on view in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915." 12/21/2009 8. 060 Special Exhibition: An Evening with ...Photographer Robert Frank discusses his groundbreaking publication The Americans with Jeff Rosenheim, curator of photographs at the Metropolitan Museum, and Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art. Excerpted from an onstage conversation at the Met, held October 9, 2009. 12/7/2009 Page 1 of 7  67 Episodes
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