Grumpy Art Historian
Curmudgeonly criticism, mostly about art.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Saturday, 18 July 2015
Listening to the pictures: Sound in museums
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Picture: Wikipedia This picture has haunted me since I first saw it some years ago in Utrecht's Catherijneconvent. It's a tiny ...
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Monday, 4 May 2015
The logic of our age
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The entire Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was closed yesterday, so that rich people could have a party. In the UK museums were tr...
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Sunday, 14 July 2013
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay
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C.D. Dickerson et al Bernini: Sculpting in Clay Yale University Press 2012 This is a superb scholarly study with excellent illustra...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Great wall text
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Picture: Metropolitan Museum of Art The latest Tate Britain show is dispensing with long labels so that we can find our own meaning, re...
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Michelangelo Attribution at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Photo: Telegraph Great post by CultureGrrl on a daft attribution of a sculpture to Michelangelo. It raises questions about curatorial...
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