The Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition Podcast
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's official Podcast features exclusive commentary and programs relating to Special Exhibitions. The Museum's exhibitions span the ages and represent cultures from every part of the world. Come visit us in New York City and online at www.metmuseum.org.
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057 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915: Author Elizabeth Strout Discusses Two Paintings by Winslow Homer
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
Pulitzer Prize?winning author Elizabeth Strout shares her responses to Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two of the Winslow Homer paintings in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915."
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056 Episode for Families: Johnny Appleseed and <em>American Stories</em>
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
Curator Barbara Boehm relates the delightful American story of Johnny Appleseed in this episode produced especially for younger audiences.
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055 Special Exhibition: Velázquez Rediscovered
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
The Metropolitan Museum's European paintings chairman, Keith Christiansen, and head of paintings conservation, Michael Gallagher, discuss their recent reattribution of an extraordinary portrait in the collection to the greatest of all Spanish painters.
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054 Episode for Families: The Tengu Nose Contest
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 09, 2009
Listen to this amusing story of a contest between two Japanese spirits in this episode produced especially for younger audiences.
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053 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music"
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 09, 2009
October 12, 2009?January 24, 2010
Artist Kara Walker offers her interpretation of the painting The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount, on view in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915."
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052 Special Exhibition: The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the Museum from the French Republic?s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.
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051 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915: George Caleb Bingham's Take on Election Day
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
October 12, 2009?January 24, 2010
Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter shares his insights on Election Day and on George Caleb Bingham?s painting The County Election, on view in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915."
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050 Special Exhibition: Pablo Bronstein at the Met
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein?s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of the Metropolitan Museum.
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049 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Oct 19, 2009
October 12, 2009?January 24, 2010
Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food depicted in two paintings by Lilly Martin Spencer?Kiss Me and You?ll Kiss the 'Lasses and Young Husband: First Marketing?on view in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915."
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048 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
October 12, 2009?January 24, 2010
Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson comments on Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow Homer paintings in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915."
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047 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Oct 05, 2009
October 12, 2009?January 24, 2010
Curator Barbara Weinberg introduces artist Eric Fischl, who takes a fresh look at two of the John Singer Sargent paintings?An Interior in Venice and A Street in Venice?that are included in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915."
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046 Special Exhibition: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718?44
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Sep 21, 2009
Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table?created in conjunction with the Du Paquier exhibition?with culinary historian Ivan Day.
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045 Special Exhibition: Vermeer?s Masterpiece, <i>The Milkmaid</i>
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tue, Sep 08, 2009
Exhibition curator Walter Liedtke discusses the unique patronage of Johannes Vermeer and its influence on the artistic and psychological aesthetic of The Milkmaid and other works by the artist.
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044 TweenCast Episode: Young Woman Peeling Apples
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tue, Sep 08, 2009
This TweenCast episode, written especially for audiences ages ten to twelve, imagines the life of a young maid in seventeenth-century Holland. Nicolaes Maes's Young Woman Peeling Apples is included in the exhibition "Vermeer's Masterpiece The Milkmaid."
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043 Special Exhibition: The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Aug 17, 2009
Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer, talks with Harold Koda, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, and Kohle Yohannan, guest co-curator, about the 1995 documentary Unzipped. In the following excerpts from the conversation, Mizrahi talks about rallying his talent, his team, and his friends?the supermodels?early in his career. A video of the entire conversation is available on the Met's YouTube channel.
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042 Special Exhibition: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Aug 03, 2009
Afghanistan?s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad, speaks about the rich culture and history of Afghanistan at the inauguration of the exhibition ?Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul.? Introduction by Met Director Thomas P. Campbell.
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041 Special Exhibition: Michelangelo's First Painting
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
Keith Christiansen, the Jayne Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, and Michael Gallagher, Conservator in Charge of Paintings Conservation, discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475?Rome 1564), believed to have been created when he was twelve or thirteen years old. Recently acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum, the painting The Torment of Saint Anthony has undergone conservation and technical examination at the Metropolitan Museum, leading to this new attribution.
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040 Special Exhibition: The Pictures Generation, 1974?1984
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jun 15, 2009
Doug Eklund, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs, speaks with the artist Dan Graham about Jack Goldstein's 1976 series called A Suite of Nine 7-Inch Records with Sound Effects. The records are on display in the exhibition "The Pictures Generation, 1974?1984," and visitors to the Museum can listen to them in the galleries.
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039 The New American Wing: American Art Pottery
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, May 18, 2009
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, the Metropolitan Museum's Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, talks with Robert Ellison about his collection of American ceramics from 1876 to 1956, a promised gift to the Museum. The works will be displayed on the mezzanine balcony of the Charles Engelhard Court in the New American Wing, which reopens to the public on May 19, 2009. More information about the American Decorative Arts collection is available on the Museum's Audio Guide.
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038 The New American Wing: The Verplanck Room
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, May 11, 2009
Metropolitan Museum curators Morrison Heckscher and Amelia Peck discuss the details of an eighteenth-century period room furnished with the belongings of the Verplanck family. Along with eighteen other period rooms, the Verplanck Room will return to public view when the New American Wing reopens on May 19, 2009. More information about the period rooms is available on the Museum's Audio Guide.
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037 It's Time We Met: A Tokyo Teenager Visits the Museum
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, ,
Apr 13, 2009
Mimiko, a teenager from Tokyo, visits the Met and tours the new 19th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries.
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036 日本人少女メトロポリタン美術館へ行く [Japanese]
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Apr 13, 2009
東京在住の少女ミミ子、お気に入りの作品を鑑賞しにメトロポリタン美術館の新19世紀ヨーロッパ絵画・彫刻ギャラリーを訪れる
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035 Special Exhibition: Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
Curators Ian Wardropper and James David Draper describe The French Parnassus, an extraordinary bronze sculpture featured in the special exhibition "Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution," on view at the Met February 24 through May 25, 2009.
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034 Special Exhibition: Art of the Korean Renaissance
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
The dynamic works featured in the exhibition ?Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400?1600? provide a glimpse into the extraordinary artistic and cultural renaissance that took place in Korea during the early Joseon dynasty. Soyoung Lee, the exhibition?s curator, narrates. The exhibition is on view from March 17 through June 21, 2009.
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033 특별전:한국 르네상스의 미술
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
March 17, 2008?June 21, 2009
' 한국 르네상스의 미술, 1400-1600 년'전은다이나믹한 작품들을 통해 한국 조선시대 전기의특출한 문화적, 예술적 부흥의 모습을 소개한다. 전시를 기획한 이소영 큐레이터가 해설한다. 동전시는 2009년 3월 17일부터 6월 21일까지 개최된다.
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032 The Philippe de Montebello Years: Mangaaka Power Figure
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jan 26, 2009
Alisa LaGamma and Philippe de Montebello discuss the original form and function of this arresting sculpture from Central Africa. Recorded on the occasion of "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions", on view from October 24, 2008?February 1, 2009.
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031 The Philippe de Montebello Years: Onésipe Aguado's <i>Woman Seen from the Back</i>
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Dec 22, 2008
October 24, 2008?February 1, 2009
Philippe de Montebello speaks with curator Malcolm Daniel about Onésipe Aguado's mysterious photograph Woman Seen from the Back, which was acquired by the Museum as part of the remarkable Gilman Collection. Recorded on the occasion of "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions", on view from October 24, 2008?February 1, 2009.
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030 The Philippe de Montebello Years: <i>Autograph Quilt</i>
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 24, 2008
October 24, 2008?February 1, 2009
Philippe de Montebello discusses a unique ninteenth-century American quilt with curator Amelia Peck. Recorded on the occasion of "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions", on view from October 24, 2008?February 1, 2009.
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029 The Philippe de Montebello Years: Duccio di Buoninsegna?s <i>Madonna and Child</i>
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Oct 20, 2008
October 24, 2008?February 1, 2009
Philippe de Montebello discusses Duccio di Buoninsegna?s Madonna and Child?one of the masterworks in the Museum's collection?with curator Keith Christiansen. Recorded on the occasion of "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions", on view from October 24, 2008?February 1, 2009.
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028 The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tues, Oct 14, 2008
Curator Alisa LaGamma talks to artist Sokari Douglas Camp about her work, including the steel sculpture Nigerian Woman Shopping, which is featured in the special exhibition "The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End."
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027 Episode for Families: <i>Aesop?s Fables</i>
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jul 21, 2008
Enjoy the fundamental wisdom of Aesop?s Fables in this episode, produced especially for younger audiences.
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026 The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jun 30, 2008
Exhibition Dates: October 24, 2008?February 1, 2009
Curator Helen Evans previews the exhibition "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions," which opens October 24, 2008.
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025 Work of Art: A Conversation with Marco Leona, Joan Mertens, and Mark Abbe
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jun 02, 2008
A scientist, a curator, and an archaeologist discuss the exciting discoveries revealed by the scientific analyses of an ancient Greek funerary stele.
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024 Episode for Families: Peach Blossom Spring
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Mar 31, 2008
Discover the peaceful tranquility of Peach Blossom Spring in this story originally told seventeen hundred years ago by the poet Tao Qian.
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023 Gustave Courbet
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Mar 03, 2008
Curator Gary Tinterow visits the New York studio of the painter John Currin to discuss the special exhibition Gustave Courbet.
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022 Interview with El Anatsui
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jan 21, 2008
Curator Alisa LaGamma talks to artist El Anatsui about his work, including the sculpture Between Earth and Heaven, which was recently installed in the African art galleries.
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021 Episode for Families: Ananse the Spider
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Dec 24, 2007
This episode, produced for younger audiences ages 7?12, features an African folk tale and is inspired by a linguist staff (oykeame) in the Museum's collection. Narrated by actor Ronnie Washington.
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020 High School Intern Episode: "One of A Kind: The Studio Craft Movement"
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Nov 5, 2007
This episode, written and performed by the Museum's summer 2007 high school interns, brings the Studio Craft movement to life.
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019 Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840?1860
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Oct 22, 2007
Guest curator Roger Taylor traces the history and impact of the paper negative, or calotype, which was invented by Henry Talbot in 1841.
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018 The Age of Rembrandt
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Sep 17, 2007
Curator Walter Liedtke discusses the Museum's unparalleled collection of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, and provides insight into nineteenth-century Americans' fascination with these works from the age of Rembrandt.
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017 The New Uris Center for Education
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Aug 13, 2007
Director Philippe de Montebello offers a glimpse of the Metropolitan's state-of-the-art Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, opening October 23.
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016 Poiret: King of Fashion
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jul 23, 2007
Curator Harold Koda explains Paul Poiret's significant contributions to the world of fashion. The video version includes a special animation feature.
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015 College Intern Talk: Edward Hopper
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jul 9, 2007
Discover the significance and historical context of Edward Hopper's 1929 painting The Lighthouse at Two Lights through a talk by one of our college interns.
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014 College Intern Talk: Neo-Assyrian Reliefs
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fri, Jun 25, 2007
Explore stunning wall reliefs commissioned by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II nearly three thousand years ago in a special episode created by one of our college interns.
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013 Work of Art: Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fri, Feb 16, 2007
Curator Carrie Rebora Barratt tells the story of one of the greatest icons of American painting, Emanuel Leutze's monumental Washington Crossing the Delaware.
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012 New Greek and Roman Galleries
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Feb 5, 2007
Director Philippe de Montebello offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the treasures featured in the spectacular New Greek and Roman Galleries, opening April 20.
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011 Americans in Paris, 1860?1900
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Jan 8, 2007
The actor Charles Turner reads amusing descriptions of Parisian daily life by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859?1937), the first African American artist to achieve international acclaim.
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010 Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tue, Nov 28, 2006
Vivid descriptions, read from letters by Tiffany and his contemporaries, reveal the history behind one of his greatest artistic achievements.
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009 Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YAuthor: ork
Mon, Oct 23, 2006
Excerpts from the unpublished manuscript of the pioneering photographer Kathleen Haddon chronicle indigenous ceremonies and traditions of the Papuan Gulf in the early 20th century.
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008 Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Oct 09, 2006
Museum Director Philippe de Montebello provides the historical context behind these medieval sculpted heads, recalling their importance as icons and symbols of power.
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007 Sean Scully: Wall of Light
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Sep 25, 2006
The artist Sean Scully explores the emotional and narrative themes of his abstract, bricklike forms.
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006 New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Aug 29, 2006
The photographer Robert Polidori describes his experience depicting the loss and pathos of a civilization in chaos in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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005 AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, May 01, 2006
Punk legend John Rotten provides commentary on the evolution of British fashion, relating fashion of necessity to social structures and the bravado of the individual.
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004 Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mon, Apr 10, 2006
Actor Sam Waterston narrates the story of the famous Egyptian queen Hatshepsut.
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003 Kara Walker at the Met: After the Deluge
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Thu, Mar 30, 2006
The artist Kara Walker lends new insight into the antebellum world depicted in her work.
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002 Samuel Palmer (1805-1881): Vision and Landscape
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Wed, Mar 15, 2006
Explore the Romantic era of Samuel Palmer.
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001 Vincent van Gogh--The Letters
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Thu, Oct 6, 2005
Actor Kevin Bacon reads excerpts from the letters of Vincent van Gogh.
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