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In 1941 #GordonParks photographed artist #CharlesWhite in front of one of his murals. Hear Mason Klein discuss the photograph, which was on view in our 2021 exhibition “Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine," on @bbgconnects https://t.co/pf86RndTkK #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/sqLoFruNQ0

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Today is your last day to see “Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter!” Hear curator Philip Larratt-Smith discuss select works in the exhibition: https://t.co/uRyn02hqn5 © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. https://t.co/qbLwPLLWQR

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Watch now! Listen to a discussion between art historian Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art and Kristina Parsons, Leon Levy Assistant Curator, part of the curatorial team behind “New York: 1962-1964.” Watch now: https://t.co/0aLJcBbxpE #NY6264 https://t.co/5oHacCXm9V

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Join us on 10/20 from 6:30-8 pm for an in-person conversation with Maira Kalman to celebrate the release of her publication “Women Holding Things.” Kalman considers the many things that fit physically and metaphorically between women’s hands. Tickets: https://t.co/pSESQNj3An

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The virtual symposium “Looting, Loss, and Recovery” premieres on 12/6 with videos by scholars and a video tour of “Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art,” and a live talk on 12/9 at 6:30pm ET. Check out this trailer, and register for free: https://thejm.net/3ELcp2K https://t.co/nbyfES6HxI

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Happy #4thofJuly! We hope you are enjoying your holiday, whether you are at a parade or a barbeque. 📸: Weegee (born Arthur Fellig), “Victory Ride,” 1945, Gelatin silver print, © Weegee/International Center of Photography/Getty Images. https://t.co/XnfHyfFBXB

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Join us on 4/27 from 6:30-8:00 pm for a conversation between Dr. Atina Grossmann and Dr. Joseph Sassoon as they discuss his most recent book, “The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire.” Co-presented with @JewishBook. Tickets: https://t.co/IMMciUCNHb

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Author Jonathan Kaufman visits the Museum for an in-person talk related to his book “The Last Kings of Shanghai,” which details the extraordinary story of the Sassoon and Kadoorie families, on 6/8 from 6:30-8:00 pm ET. Tickets: https://t.co/KXDTRYLEF3 #TheSasoons

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On June 1 from 6:30-7:30 pm, explore the architectural legacy of the Sassoons in an in-person lecture by Esther da Costa Meyer, Professor Emerita at the Department of Art and Archeology @Princeton and co-curator of #TheSassoons. Purchase tickets: https://t.co/2UsmLdLIhj

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“Singing Muezzin in Minaret” by Hans Felix Kraus is one of 26 watercolors he created in 1933-34 for an edition of “Tartarin de Tarascon,” an 1872 novel written by the French author Alphonse Daudet. See more of Kraus’s watercolors: https://t.co/jryaWCwTgd https://t.co/Ujn0gru4b9