In celebration of being accepted as a volunteer tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (well, sort of, there are nine months of training before I get started; I did get fingerprinted and my ID, though!), here are the recent happenings at the Met as told by its biggest fan, the New York Times:
- An enthusiastic review by Roberta Smith of the exhibition “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages,” which runs through late August
- The Met, in an attempt to cut costs after a steep decline in its endowment, just completed a round of staff layoffs
- Holland Cotter’s review of “Michelangelo’s First Painting” concludes with this lovely paragraph: “For some reason- many reason- we need to have our superstars, our so-called geniuses, and we need them complete, every detail of their lives and works, however minor, accounted for, fitted into place, given significance. That is how traditional art history works, and ‘Michelangelo’s First Painting’ feels like a classic exercise in that tradition, equal parts science project, forensic document and romantic quest.”
