Robyn Schiff returns to The Met to read from her poem, “Information Desk: An Epic” in which she recounts what it was like to work at the Museum while establishing herself as a young writer.
“Though I haven’t worked inside the Information Desk now for more than twenty years,” she writes, “the experience has so asserted itself into my art that I regard the Information Desk as my private writing desk; I am always seated there.”
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Artworks mentioned:
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669). “Self Portrait,” 1660. Oil on canvas, 31 5/8 x 26 1/2 in. (80.3 x 67.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 ()
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Follower of Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, third quarter 17th century). “Portrait of a Man” (“The Auctioneer”) 1658–62. Oil on canvas, 42 3/4 x 34 in. (1
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