Christie's : Gerhard Richter's show "Painting After All" in Christie's 10 of the best virtual museum tours

Art from home — 10 of the best virtual museum experiences in the Americas 

Words by Harry Seymour

Ever wanted to visit Frida Kahlo’s home in Mexico City, stand before Old Masters at the Frick in New York, or admire the antiquities at the Getty? Well, you still can, thanks to the ingenuity of some of the finest museums in the Americas

6 The Metropolitan Museum of ArtView the works included in Gerhard Richter: Painting After All

The Met’s recent Digital Digest  blog post provides a roundup of its online activities, including a fascinating video of a Native AmericanYup’ik mask being restored, and dizzying 360-degree interactive flyovers through the museum’s famous neoclassical Great Hall and medieval-inspired cloisters.

The Unicorn Purifies the Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries), 1495-1505. French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven). Wool warp with wool, silk, silver and gilt wefts. Overall: 368.3 x 378.5 cm. Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937. 37.80.2. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art

You can also take a digital stroll through 109 works in the Met Breur’s current exhibition Gerhard Richter: Painting After All, which was organised with support from Christie’s. It includes his new work House of Cards (5 Panes), a monumental glass response to Richard Serra’s lead One Ton Prop (House of Cards) from 1969, which is just down the road at MoMA.

Installation view: Gerhard Richter, Painting After All at The Met Breuer, 2020. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Chris Heins

Don’t miss… Stolen Treasure: Art and Archives at Neuschwanstein Castle, a great article form the Met’s archives about the role James Rorimer (a future director of the museum) played in tracking down Nazi-looted art in Germany during World War II, when he worked as one of the famous ‘Monuments Men’.

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