As I noted in my last blog, one of the primary functions of an art museum is to collect works of art. Did you know that a museum has different types of collections?

Happy new year to all the readers of MetTalk! In a series of upcoming blogs, I will explore the purposes and fuctions of a museum.

We're happy to announce the addition of a new educator in the Met's Education & Interpretation department.

This is the final installment on the development of Crossroads: Meeting of Art and Science which opened to the public at the Reeves ASK Science Center on September 22, 2007.

This is a continuing report on the development of the "art-science lab," which will debut at the Temporary Reeves ASK Science Center on September 22, 2007.

This is a continuing report on the development of the "art-science lab," which will debut at the Reeves ASK Science Center on September 22, 2007.

In my last blog, I spoke about the preliminary steps towards the development of a unique art-science exhibition that will open on September 22, 2007 at the Reeves ASK Science Center. A group of Met curators and educators met in early May 2007 and determined it would be necessary to meet on a weekly basis to fully conceptualize and implement the exhibition on a shortened timeline. In general, it takes 12 – 18 months for the exhibition development process, but we only had four and a half months to work with. Panic set in.

For the past two months, I’ve been intimately involved in the development of an upcoming museum exhibition that will focus on the intersections of art and science. The exhibition will debut at the Reeves ASK Science Center in late September 2007. The development process, which has been highly collaborative, has been fascinating and I will share some behind-the-scenes details with you.

It has been a bittersweet week. Legions of fans were treated to the 86th and long-awaited conclusive hour of a dramatic tour de force on Sunday. Yet, at the same time, we had to bid farewell to our favorite visual tale when The Sopranos officially ended its six-season, nine-year run on cable television. A lot of people were disappointed by the story's “non-ending,” its Dada-like non-sensical final scene. But for many of us, no other ending would have been appropriate for a TV series that has always been so powerfully unconventional and steeped in narrative ambiguity.

A few weeks ago I read an inspiring article on the Washington Post Website titled “What is Feminist Art?” (April 22, 2007). The piece was written by Blake Gopnik in response to the exciting and long overdue international feminist art survey, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Gopnik’s essay prompted me to recall the many reasons I am attracted to feminist art.