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On Letting Go

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On Letting Go

Jun 3, 2016, 12:44 PM

Most artists dread the thought that their life’s production will be annihilated.

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Lessons from the Met

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Lessons from the Met

Oct 13, 2015, 12:30 PM

Depending on what I was struggling with in class in the morning, I’d study how various artists solved that very problem during my evenings at the Metropolitan.

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What Makes a Masterpiece?

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What Makes a Masterpiece?

Sep 22, 2015, 3:06 PM

Steven Walker is in search of a definition for the word “masterpiece” as it applies to fine art.

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masterpiece

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Who Decides What Is a Masterpiece?

Aug 14, 2015, 2:53 PM

I think art is a personal experience that cannot be labeled by the keeper of the gate.

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What Makes a Masterpiece?

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What Makes a Masterpiece?

Jul 24, 2015, 7:00 AM

A masterpiece hinges on the artist’s pure interaction with the subject.

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How a Small Painting Can Engulf You

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How a Small Painting Can Engulf You

Jul 22, 2015, 12:01 PM

This seventeenth-century woman seems so completely connected with her surroundings and the present moment that a very ordinary scene begins to be elevated to a whole new level.

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

Jul 2, 2015, 3:33 PM

“For me the Metropolitan Museum of Art embodies a cross-pollination of cultures in symbiosis.”

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Take Five

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Take Five

Jun 23, 2015, 8:42 AM

In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum’s encyclopedic holdings, “Take Five” is a series of posts where artists describe the lessons that any five works in the collection have taught them about their craft or life as an artist.

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Tools of the Trade

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Tools of the Trade

Jun 17, 2015, 8:01 AM

Painter Sharon Sprung discusses the tools she uses to make art: a third-generation easel with a special pedigree, a transformed lithographers table, and an antique screen of oak panels.

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What Makes a Masterpiece?

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What Makes a Masterpiece?

Jun 11, 2015, 1:26 PM

Where and how we see art affects the quality of our experience. When we see art in a church that has been prayed in for centuries, something magical occurs, as if the art is spiritually alive.

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