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Ruth Leon recommends… Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece

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Ruth Leon recommends… Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece

Look again:   European Paintings—Rembrandt, Restoring a Masterpiece

Here’s another of those ‘behind the scenes at the museum’ videos that I love so much.
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This one has curator Adam Eaker  and conservator Dorothy Mahon as they discuss the restoration of Rembrandt’s Artistotle with a Bust of Homer, painted in 1653, and now on view in the renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.

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Evgeny Kissin condemns airline’s removal of Jewish children

Evgeny Kissin condemns airline’s removal of Jewish children

Death of Leonard Bernstein’s son, 70

Death of Leonard Bernstein’s son, 70

Schoenberg’s folk music and Stockhausen’s dead horse

Schoenberg’s folk music and Stockhausen’s dead horse

To honour the women by giving voice to their experience: pianist Deirdre Brenner introduces The Magdalene Songs which she brings to the Oxford International Song Festival

To honour the women by giving voice to their experience: pianist Deirdre Brenner introduces The Magdalene Songs which she brings to the Oxford International Song Festival

Ruth Leon recommends… The Kiss 1896

Ruth Leon recommends… The Kiss 1896

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