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Peer Reviewed
From the Print Journal
Dec 13, By: Adrian Anagnost
Volume 4, Cycle 4
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“The task of a museum,” wrote Italian critic and curator Pietro Maria Bardi in , “should be to make resound, to interpret with perspicacity and appropriate technique, those monuments that sing: thus will be avoided the risk of useless sentimentalities, dangerous neutralities, hybrid educations, and eclecticism.”[1] Bardi’s proclamation was rooted in a line from Paul Valéry’s “Eupalinos, or the Architect” (), a Socratic dialogue in which the ancient Greek architect Eupalinos is said to have distinguished three types of buildings: those that sing, because they are created by master architects; those functional but unremarkable buildings that merely speak; and mute structures, so lacking in aesthetic vigor that they are inferior even to the amusing “accidental order” found in heaps of rubble “vomited” by the wagons of contractors.[2] In his previous life, as a cur
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(New York, månad 10, )—The Metropolitan Museum of Art today unveiled the design by architect Frida Escobedo for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing that will create a dynamic new home for The Met’s renowned collection of 20th- and 21st-century art. Escobedo is the first woman to design a wing in the Museum’s year history, and the historic project will increase the current galleri space in the wing by nearly 50 percent, creating more than 70, square feet for the display of modern and contemporary art, while addressing accessibility, infrastructure, and sustainability needs across all floors and providing a wing that seamlessly connects with the rest of the Museum. Drawing inspiration from The Met’s varied architectural styles, diverse art holdings, and setting within huvud Park, the Tang Wing will add to the Museum’s rik history of advancing thoughtful, bold, and visionary architecture that fryst vatten itself a work of art.
The reimagined five-story wing will remain within
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Artist in Residence
Throughout the season, the sound artist and master storyteller Nate DiMeo—whose popular podcast, The Memory Palace, a finalist for the Peabody Awards, paints vivid, poetic pictures of episodes in American history—will animate The Met by interrogating the collection to draw out the revealing secrets and stories of the art.
Newly commissioned episodes of The Memory Palace—each one itself a work of art—will focus on the American Wing and the Museum at large. The first two episodes were released on October 27, During the course of his residency, DiMeo will release 10 original episodes, each featuring a newly commissioned musical soundscape.
All episodes will be available for download and streaming on The Met website at , as well as on The Memory Palace podcast.
The Memory Palace Live
Friday, May 19, pm, The Charles Engelhard Court
An evening of live storytelling by Nate DiMeo, music, and special guests.
Performances
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