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Image for Existentialism and Abstraction: Etchings by Lucian Freud and Brice Marden
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Existentialism and Abstraction: Etchings by Lucian Freud and Brice Marden

August 18, 2015

By Jennifer Farrell

Associate Curator Jennifer Farrell discusses the works on paper by Lucian Freud and Brice Marden that are currently on view in the Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Gallery.
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Good Vibrations: Free-Reed Instruments at the Met

December 10, 2015

By Ken Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, and Bradley Strauchen-Scherer

Curators from the Department of Musical Instruments explore two examples of free-reed instruments from the Met's collection featured in the new publication Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Fred Wilson's Memories of Egypt

November 22, 2024, revised November 12, 2024

By Fred Wilson

Learn about the artist’s trips and infatuation with Egypt.
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The Artist Project: Fred Tomaselli

June 6, 2016
Artist Fred Tomaselli reflects on _Guru Dragpo_ in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Spectrum Spotlight: Freyda Spira

January 29, 2014

By Lucy Redoglia and Christopher

Spectrum Co-chairs Lucy Redoglia and Christopher Gorman introduce readers to Freyda Spira, assistant curator in the Met's Department of Drawings and Prints.
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10 Free Art Books to Read while Social Distancing

March 20, 2020

By Christopher Alessandrini and Will Fenstermaker

Burn through your book stack already? Here's a list of free books to read at home.
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How to Make a Field Guide

June 21, 2023
Make a field guide and use it to classify bugs like a scientist at the museum.
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Bélizaire and the Frey Children

October 12, 2023–July 1, 2024
Bélizaire and the Frey Children is a rare American portrait of an enslaved Black subject depicted with the family of his enslaver. Attributed to the leading French émigré portraitist working in 1830s–50s New Orleans, the painting illuminates the co…
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Field and Forest

September 22, 2016

By Caleb Leech

Managing Horticulturist Caleb Leech details the replanting of the Trie Cloister Garden.
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The Most Polarizing Kind of Art

October 27, 2015

By Peter W.

Former High School Intern Peter W. discusses Lucian Freud's painting and how contemporary art leaves a lot up for debate.
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Naked Man, Back View

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1991–92
Accession Number: 1993.71

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Lucian Freud

R.B. Kitaj (American, Cleveland, Ohio 1932–2007 Los Angeles, California)

Date: 1991
Accession Number: 1992.41

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Seated Man Smoking

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1942
Accession Number: 2007.49.39

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Boy Asleep

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1943
Accession Number: 2007.49.40

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Portrait of the Hound

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 2011
Accession Number: SL.6.2016.84.1

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Man's head – Portrait I

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1959–60
Accession Number: 2018.651.3

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Head of a boy

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1953
Accession Number: 2018.651.4a, b

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Woman with an Arm Tattoo

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1996
Accession Number: 1997.94

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Ill in Paris

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1948
Accession Number: 2007.49.613

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Man Posing

Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London)

Date: 1985, published 1986
Accession Number: 1988.1082