Apr
28
11:00pm
Christine Coulson: Stories of the Met
By TPLCulture
In over 25 years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christine Coulson learned secrets of the sprawling structure that, like the objects inside, exist as denizens of countless pasts and histories, known and unknown. To this day, she wanders its familiar halls and galleries and thinks of it as a second home. We glimpse briefly another world briefly hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum’s devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people—along with a few ghosts. A surreal love letter to this private side of the Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humour, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
Christine Coulson talks with Sue Carter about Metropolitan Stories and the process of curating her immense experience into these little gems that make up the book.
About this event’s guests:
Christine Coulson
Sue Carter
Photo of the author courtesy of Jackie Neale.
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