“The Line of Beauty” focuses on dualities in the dazzling work of the legendary designer, but it is coy about the controversies.
Tag: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Making Art by Day, Guarding It at the Met by Night
Over 25 years walking the museum’s midnight shift, Greg Kwiatek learned how to look for the hidden subtleties of paintings, which helped inform his own.
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The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth
Investigators seized the Attic Greek cup from the Met last year. They, and others, doubt the museum’s reconstruction of it from fragments was simply a product of genius.
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Pharaonic Funkatizing at the Met Roof Garden
Lauren Halsey built a personal monument drawing on sources from ancient Egypt to George Clinton to threatened neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles.
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I Was Wrong About Cecily Brown
After panning an artist’s work 23 years ago, our veteran critic had a change of mind following three visits to “Death and the Maid” at the Met.