Inside America's Treasure House: The Met episode 1
Inside America's Treasure House: The Met episode 1 : The series begins in spring 2019, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art is in its pomp – the coffers full, visitor numbers are up and staff preparing to mark, in one year's time, the museum’s 150th anniversary. The museum has long been planning a series of stand-out exhibitions and events. The art press gather for a breakfast in the American Wing sculpture court, surrounded by treasures reflecting the tastes of the philanthropist founders of the Metropolitan.
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Transcript
00:02Nestled in New York's Central Park,
00:04this is the largest art museum
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00:18to create a cultural centre that
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00:32Every year we're pumping out
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00:59For the first time ever,
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01:14Initially, a cash crisis loomed.
01:16We're likely to see somewhere
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01:32And resolving to change.
01:34These objects were stolen,
01:35they were never intended
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02:12It's spring 2019.
02:14TheUpper East Side streets
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02:30As usual, on a Monday morning,
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02:53most of the seven million visitors
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03:12So you've stepped into
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03:28as we're going on our tour. Things
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03:44Follow me in.
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04:00Mayan and Aztec
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04:20The museum is organised
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04:41It's a 9th-century
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04:54flourishing simultaneously
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05:05We've got another one
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05:29at this period, when they're not
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05:45when they were doing renovation
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06:00these objects are from,
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06:13so I know this material
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06:24of what it meant to live well.
06:28Thisfiligreejewellery
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06:41with an exhibition called
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06:5650 years from now, maybe someone
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07:15Camp is 2019's main event
07:19a celebration
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07:31The main annual show is a
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07:51make a splash and donate heavily.
07:55In 2019, it raised $15 million.
08:00The money funds the work
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08:20because it's very... It's very
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08:56We already have stuff from the 1990s
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09:14This is by a woman named Diana Dew.
09:16A movie dress, leather with
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09:31and, actually, you can smell it.
09:33It stinks.
09:35What we're smelling is off-gassing
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09:52and pump the bubble full of argon
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10:06Downstairs, they are already
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10:25The museum is led
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10:45and the artist who we've selected
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10:59We're commemorating
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11:19From up here, Dan can see spring
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11:36The Met actually began in Paris,
11:38with American industrialists
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11:52to create a cultural centre
11:53that rivalled the greatest
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12:09they were able to generate
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undefined:undefinedpublic that's changing in ways
12:28that we all see every day.
12:32The Met opened in April 1870,
12:35a museum for the New World
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12:51They have one of
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13:03Historians argue that the
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13:20that is such a crowd pleaser.
13:23There are around 200 Dutch works,
13:25but one frequently scores high
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13:41from classical myth or history.
13:44This is an ordinary
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14:01when the Department
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14:15The museum started with collections
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14:36of the ancient world and bequeath it
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14:5530,000 objects represent
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15:13at the Cycladic Islands,
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15:37The accent was on armour
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15:53one of the most encyclopaedic
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16:09and stand before it.
16:11You go into the galleries and
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16:38Each one of these rings
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16:58But you don't see them.
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17:26I'll remove the corrosion
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undefined:undefinedWould that help? Well, the hammer...
17:39Can't see what's behind it.
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18:43I don't want to take any gold off,
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18:58to get it to display worthy.
19:00Cos when I send this off on loan,
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19:14Right now, there's a lot of things
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19:27we're very excited about it.
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19:44I've been here now, um...
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20:22the centrepiece
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20:36This is a room from the 1750s.
20:38I think this colour has come out
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20:57Burchard has a $20 million budget
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21:14Whereas the other room is going
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21:33you think, well, how are they
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21:46But it's all going to go according
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22:09Shall we move her
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22:20consumer durables that made luxury
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22:34Now they must tell a group story.
22:37We did move the lids around a little
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22:58Yeah, it's going to be fantastic.
23:01SHIP'S HORN BLOWS
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23:34Ten grand rooms, ten episodes,
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23:52she's going to sit right there,
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24:12We will have things here
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24:28to their donors, their supporters,
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24:46It's not just about objects.
24:48This exhibition also underlines
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25:07several periods in which there was
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25:23It's always been
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25:45for the new management team.
25:48We have the responsibility
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26:08Appointed one year ago,
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26:23The facade of the Metropolitan
26:25has been empty since the museum
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26:39"as a culture and as a people,"
26:41"and we're willing to put you
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26:54Artists are, of course,
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27:17looking at art not only from
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27:47Days before opening,
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28:06A display of teapots will take
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28:22Ceramics, textiles,
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28:42It features balustrades
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29:24That's where pests make their way.
29:28A skilled conservator leaves
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29:43but there's a certain point
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29:59That's changed. I think, before,
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30:24It's like surgery.
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30:40And from that we have this negative
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30:59It really now would be
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31:38When you're here almost
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32:09so we tell a more
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32:23To see it all in place
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32:45to experience it.
32:47It's a real double take.
32:48It's like walking into
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33:02And then you can see... I think
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33:18So we're missing the main ceiling.
33:20Everything else is the same.
33:23It's quite odd, yes,
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33:43But one day earlier,
33:45the first case of coronavirus
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34:03as it rapidly takes hold.
34:07New York battled on.
34:09Shutting down was unimaginable.
34:11I had been in discussions with city
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undefined:undefinedgalleries - a viral perfect storm.
34:29The Met's board
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undefined:undefinedclose at the end of the day.
34:42City Hall did not argue with us.
34:44They also had not yet made
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undefined:undefinedit's going to strike next.
35:03Other cultural institutions
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undefined:undefinedinfrastructure of New York City
35:16and all of Broadway
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35:31it felt like
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undefined:undefinedlooks like being a memorable year,
35:48but not in a good way.
35:50We determined that over the next
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undefined:undefinedand lectures and talks
36:04everything has either been
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undefined:undefinedexhibitions to the fall.
36:15Although I was thinking about
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undefined:undefinedfrozen at noon, March 13th.
36:29The staff have clocked out
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undefined:undefinedfor the 150th.
36:47The membership executive,
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undefined:undefinedyou're just doing it wrong.
37:07The fourth branch of the museum
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undefined:undefinedresidents are dying every day.
37:22There's a nationwide shortage
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undefined:undefinedprecious objects.
37:37Over 23,000 gloves
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undefined:undefinedI could make one per 20 minutes.
38:02RADIO BEEPS
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undefined:undefinedexternal entities
38:19try to compromise, you know, our
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undefined:undefinedin their new twilit world.
38:37All right. Carolyn Riccardelli
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undefined:undefinedthese masks were sewn..."
38:53It's not that emotional,
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undefined:undefinedHow are you doing, Rachel?
39:09I'm OK, you? I'm OK.
39:11Hanging in there.
39:14If these rounds are really simple,
39:17that means we're doing
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39:51Yeah, look at this,
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undefined:undefinedthings being covered up,
40:06but it's still exciting
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undefined:undefinedthe plague in Palermo.
40:22Andrea, is it Saint Ros-alia?
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undefined:undefined707
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undefined:undefinedand captures that moment.
40:46It was one of the first works of art
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undefined:undefinedabout the museum's history.
41:02One of the things that has really
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undefined:undefinedI go to see Tullio Lombardo's Adam,
41:22which is a sculpture that I
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undefined:undefinedaffected everybody in the museum.
41:47And it was through the efforts
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undefined:undefinedin a new way.
42:17Walking through the museum
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undefined:undefinedand about the world around you.
42:30Director Max Hollein
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undefined:undefinedProject is Max's own vision.
42:52It celebrates creative commonalities
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undefined:undefinedof interconnectedness.
43:08That these are works coming
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undefined:undefinedtwo carvings of African men.
43:27One, a German altarpiece
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undefined:undefinedyour audiences for a couple of days,
43:45it feels right now as if these
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undefined:undefinedmuseums...
44:06Now comes the race
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undefined:undefinedis being brought very slowly
44:28from the first to the second floor.
44:31Curator Diana Craig Patch is
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undefined:undefinedshared the statue with us
44:46which is something that we always
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undefined:undefinedwho succeeded her.
45:07Look at her! I mean, is that
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undefined:undefinedvariability in that.
45:27It doesn't look like there's
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undefined:undefinedkeeping her from swinging.
45:58Ready. Crayton,
46:01we have to make sure
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undefined:undefinedthen the
46:14face can be looking
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undefined:undefinedto rebuild him.
46:28You see the thing is, Diana,
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undefined:undefinedabout a half inch that way.
46:45Right, whoa, whoa. Got her?
46:50Ready?
46:52No, no, no. Oops, she's moved.
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undefined:undefinedtwo four-foot clamps?
47:19BANG AND CLATTERING
47:23I can't. I can't!
47:26They drop things...
47:33Diana? Yeah.
47:34Are we ready?
47:36I'm looking.
47:38Yeah, she's getting better.
47:40A little bit more.
47:42There she goes.
47:44She's fine. Is it good?
47:46Yeah, you can stop.
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undefined:undefineda pyramid perfect. Yeah.
47:57HE CHUCKLES
47:59In August, New York
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undefined:undefinedfor the opening are under way.
48:17In times of trouble and duress, like
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undefined:undefinedwalking these echoing halls,
48:32Max and Dan
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undefined:undefined840
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedI actually photographed it.
48:46And all the hand sanitiser machines
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedI should have it on.
49:04Laurel Britton is the
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undefined:undefinedand our collection,
49:18trying to keep staff safe
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undefined:undefinedand move on to the 151st year.
49:38We didn't realise that
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undefined:undefined858
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undefined:undefined860
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedto the Met since they were babies.
50:08I couldn't get here early enough.
50:10So they opened at ten,
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthe Communications Team
50:26know footfall will be a barometer
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedfor New Yorkers, I think.
50:43We've been waiting months.
50:46Good morning. Everyone's a member or
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undefined:undefinedthere's a vetting process as relates
51:09to, you know,
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undefined:undefinedthat's been installed.
51:23Things like that, on the surface,
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedHead of Communications Ken Weine
51:41had good news to communicate.
51:43Dan and Max have been
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undefined:undefinedCollection. Modern art.
52:00I just want to be surrounded
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedwhat it means for New York City?
52:20Oh, yeah, it means that there is
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefineda lot of challenging moments
52:39in the last six months,
52:41and what we've been working towards
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedI'm so happy the Met is back.
53:03I grew up in New York so I've been
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undefined:undefinedthan just a building.
53:20People that have gotten here
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undefined:undefinedthat just went "Wah!"
53:28You know, like this,
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undefined:undefinedfolks.
53:51Er, they're more a hipster type
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undefined:undefinedwho has grown up, it's life.
54:20Upstairs, visitors see
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undefined:undefinedsparked by coming to something
54:34as culturally, visually,
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedjust... I need it.
54:52It's nice to come back and see stuff
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undefined:undefinedon Fifth Avenue,
55:06it feels like it's going to be here
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undefined:undefinedyears. This is like a childhood home
55:28to me. Yeah. So this is
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undefined:undefinedI see my lips, I see my nose.
55:40And it's like... Oh, God, yes!
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undefined:undefineda risk... for art.
56:02There weren't very many people
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undefined:undefinedseemingly impossible projects,
56:30all along the way
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undefined:undefinedthat it's not like it was before.
56:44You know, the first time you
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undefined:undefinedpeople come to museums.
57:01They want to feel
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undefined:undefinedof the museum has to take account
57:24of this moment. It's huge.
57:27There are many questions to answer,
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undefined:undefineddedicated to the past
57:43change to reflect the present?
57:45I could apologise all day long
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undefined:undefinedis that of slavery.
58:02And there's more.
58:04Before that, there is more.