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"I am sometimes not sure which is more remarkable: that life lives up to great paintings, or that great paintings live up to life."
“So if the place was burning down, we'd protect you before we'd protect the Rembrandts.”
“Copyists have created reinterpretations of original artworks in The Met collection since 1872.”
“The magazine is called Sw!pe, and it's named for people who clock in and out of their jobs.”
“Jacob S. Rogers, the locomotive builder of this city who left his entire fortune of $5,000,000 to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art was considered a particularly mean man by his fellow citizens of Paterson.”
Do you know about the entrance hardly anybody uses?
Millions of people a year visit New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art to view its vast collections spanning 5,000 years of history.
“I created this guideline to understand what kind of visitors we are in museums and how we can optimise our visit without being overwhelmed.”
The BMA has 45 guards. The 17 who applied for the project picked artworks ranging from sixth-century pre-Columbian sculpture, to a 1925 French door knocker, to a 2021 protest painting.
“This video lets you soar past the colonnades, up toward the oculus in the ceiling, and cast a look down over the Grand Staircase and balcony.”