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This exhibition of William Eggleston’s color photographs developed from negatives made between 1965 and 1974, reminds me of the tagline from the 1969 film Easy Rider: “A man went looking for America, and couldn’t find it anywhere ... ”
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Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores how the snake-haired Gorgon transformed from a hideous monster into a beautiful femme fatale.
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Security guards' annual salaries are less than half the state’s annual median income, hovering just above the equivalent of minimum wage.
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On Saturday, members of the group PAIN Sackler and other organizations gathered at the Temple of Dendur to decry the Metropolitan Museum's association with the Sackler family's painkiller fortune.
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Simone Seagle transforms iconic works by artists like Paul Klee and Claude Monet into interactive animations.
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On Saturday, a historian wearing her handmade robe à la française style dress was barred from entering the museum to take part in a tour.
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Golub’s paintings cast the West’s Greco-Roman heritage not as a reflection of reason and order, but as a manifestation of its latent savagery.
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Michelangelo's sensitive phantasmagorical drawings are riveting because they are fierce and fragile; strength and tenderness, like figure and ground, are tied together, neither one complete without the other.
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Two Rodin shows place the first modernist sculptor in historical context.
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The intimate drawings of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the largest painting Pablo Picasso ever made.
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Michelangelo, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, went to see works by his Renaissance namesake this morning.
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The bigger question regarding the Metropolitan Museum's new admission policy is who should pay? Donors? The public?