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Modern Self Portraits
This week on Meet the Met: the Modern Art Mezzanine has an exhibition called The Lens and the Mirror showing self-portraits from the Museum’s own collection.
Come on in for a bit of discussion and a sampling of the works on display.
We Will Destroy the Museums
It was Nietzsche gone wild, nationalistic and revolutionary, violently misogynistic. It was an art movement whose adherents rejected museums, a mode of thought that presaged Buck Rogers and the atomic bomb and the The Factory the Wars and the transistor radio and the plastic century. It was Futurism, and it’s a hundred years and two days old.
