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The Artist Project: Vik Muniz

Artist Vik Muniz reflects on The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"The Luce Center is transgressive in that you're being empowered."

Vik Muniz reflects on The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Vik Muniz, born in 1961, is a Brazilian mixed-media artist and photographer.

A black and white photograph of a portrait of a girl created by arranging sugar on black paper

Vik Muniz (Brazilian, born Sao Paulo, 1961)

Valentine, The Fastest, 1996

Gelatin silver print; 13 3/8 × 10 1/2 in. (33.9 × 26.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1997 (1997.230.1) © Vik Muniz


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Coffeepot, Painted tin, American
American
1800–1830
Doorplate and Knob from the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, Louis Henry Sullivan  American, Cast iron
Louis Henry Sullivan
ca. 1894–95
George Washington, Emile Dupont-Zipcy, Faience, French
Emile Dupont-Zipcy
Edward Savage
1840–83
Paperweight, Mount Washington Glass Company  American, Free-blown glass, American
Mount Washington Glass Company
1870–1900
Tall Clock, Gawen Brown  American, Mahogany, chestnut, white pine, American
Gawen Brown
1750–60
John Watts, Robert Ball Hughes  American, Bronze, American
Robert Ball Hughes
E. Gruet
ca. 1830, cast by 1906
Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey, Matthew Pratt  American, Oil on canvas, American
Matthew Pratt
ca. 1772
Lamp, Tiffany Studios, Lead and glass, American
Tiffany Studios
ca. 1902–18