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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition Podcast

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition Podcast




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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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 Heaven and Earth, 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 York
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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