How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art

Title:: How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art
Speaker:: Luke Syson
Description:: Luke Syson was a curator of Renaissance art, of transcendent paintings of saints and solemn Italian ladies -- Very Serious Art. And then he changed jobs, and inherited the Met's collection of ceramics -- pretty, frilly, "useless" candlesticks and vases. He didn't like it. He didn't get it. Until one day ...

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 13:11

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