{"id":36,"date":"2009-04-10T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-04-10T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T21:31:00","slug":"museum-behind-the-scenes-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-danny-danzinger-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2009\/04\/museum-behind-the-scenes-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-danny-danzinger-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art &#8211; Danny Danzinger, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwsalticidco-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0143114263&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"padding-left: 4px; width: 120px; height: 240px; float: right;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> I grew up just a few blocks from the Met and have spent many, many hours there. It&#8217;s not my favorite museum in the world (that would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\">V&A;<\/a>, followed by quite a few others before getting to the Met), but it&#8217;s the one I know best. Yet I saw many other sides of it in this Studs-Terkel-style interview book. Danziger&#8217;s no Terkel, but he draws out many different sides of his subjects. The most interesting aspect to me was probably the clear class divisions between the workers (security guard, plumber, etc. &#8211; not totally blue-collar but close), the curators (intellectual, boho), and the trustees (obnoxiously wealthy and privileged). Because the order is simply alphabetical by last name, they rub elbows in the pages in a way that presumably doesn&#8217;t happen in real life. A quick, enjoyable read, which makes me want to visit again and take a closer look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/special\/Duccio\/duccio_more.htm\">Duccio&#8217;s Madonna and Child<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/works_of_art\/collection_database\/the_robert_lehman_collection\/portrait_of_gerard_de_lairesse_rembrandt_rembrandt_harmensz_van_rijn\/objectview.aspx?collID=15&amp;OID=150000130\">Rembrandt&#8217;s portrait of Gerard de Lairesse<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/pipa\/hd_pipa.htm\">pi-pa<\/a> (a Ming dynasty lute). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/explore\/anesite\/html\/el_ane_reliefs_menu.htm\">Akkadian (Assyrian) reliefs<\/a> always fascinated me, but I didn&#8217;t realize before how unusual they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up just a few blocks from the Met and have spent many, many hours there. It&#8217;s not my favorite museum in the world (that would be the V&#038;A;, followed by quite a few others before getting to the Met), but it&#8217;s the one I know best. Yet I saw many other sides of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}