The museum shrouded the painting to ask the question: “What would the Met’s walls look like if there were no refugees?” Works by other famous artists including Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, and Mark Rothko are labeled as works “made by a refugee.”
Sheena Wagstaff
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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.
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From the Deep South, an Overlooked Chapter in Art History
ATLANTA — Is Bill Arnett enjoying the last laugh?
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Tate Modern’s Chief Curator Heading to Met to Head New Modern/Contemporary Dept
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today the appointment of Sheena Wagstaff to the newly created position of chairman of the department of Modern and Contemporary Art.