Title: The artist project
Description: Since The Metropolitan Museum of Art's founding in New York City nearly 150 years ago, generations of artists have found boundless inspiration in its galleries. "The Artist Project" celebrates the role that great art plays in spurring creativity in the twenty-first century. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Met's collection that spark their imagination offer new insights into art, museums, and the creative process. Images of the works from The Met appear alongside images of the contemporary artists' work, allowing readers to discover a rich web of visual connections that spans cultures and millennia.
Subjects: Catalogs, Interviews, Artists, Modern Art, Art criticism, Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Quotations, Art appreciation, Metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.), Art, modern, 21st century
Places: New York (State), New York
Time periods: 21st century