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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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Nagano’s eye-opening Mahler

Wonderful joy, energy, & sheer engagement: Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers from English Touring Opera, directed by Liam Steel

Wonderful joy, energy, & sheer engagement: Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers from English Touring Opera, directed by Liam Steel

Divine Impressario: Nicolini on stage

He is not here: composer Oliver Tarney introduces his St Mark Passion with its highlighting of voices that we do not normally hear from

Handel’s Rinaldo recast as pacey drama by Royal Academy of Music with some star quality in the solo roles

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