Behind the scenes at the museum’s biggest-ever showcase of its staff art
Tucked behind the Greek and Roman wing of America’s biggest museum, a man is running around, cursing how few power outlets there are in the gallery. He’s surrounded by approximately 641 pieces of art, precariously perched on tables or leaning against walls. Right now he’s holding a giant papier-mâché head made of museum brochures, trying to create order out of chaos.
It’s on display because “I have kids and a job and can’t crash any more”. Michael Greenberger, a copyist who helped co-ordinate the museum’s copyist programme for years, has submitted an almost exact replica of “The Declaration of Love” by Jean François de Troy, except the central female figure is painted over in electric blue. I tell him I love seeing the object of desire removed from an 18th-century painting. It changes the entire painting. “Yes!” He says.
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