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The Artist Project: Kalup Linzy

Sep 16, 2015 3 MINUTES
"When looking at these Manet paintings, on a certain level I do think they're drag."

Kalup Linzy reflects on Édouard Manet 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
Kalup Linzy, born in 1977, is an American video and performance artist.

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A video still of a Black man wearing a dress and a blond wig with his head on another man's lap as they sit on a sofa

Kalup Linzy (American, born Clermont, Florida 1977)

Conversations wit de Churen V: As da Art World Might Turn, 2006.

Single-channel digital video, color, sound, 12 min., 10 sec. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, funds from various donors, 2012 (2012.250) © Kalup Linzy, 2006

Artworks in this video

Young Man in the Costume of a Majo
Young Man in the Costume of a Majo
Edouard Manet
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet
The Spanish Singer
The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet
Young Lady in 1866
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet
A Matador
A Matador
Edouard Manet

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