Plain or Fancy, Restraint and Exuberance: A Conversation about Taste
Wayne Koestenbaum, author, The Queen's Throat and Humiliation Luke Syson, Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Curator in Charge, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, MMA The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Plain or Fancy? Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts culls highlights from the Met's permanent collections to contrast restrained—plain—works of art with richly ornamented—fancy—ones, focusing on those moments
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