Show Notes:
– Click here to Listen to the MP3 of podcast #57
(25.19 minutes)

Art News

– Staggering Cache of Picassos Turns Up In France

– Drawing Every Person in New York

– 5,000 Donors Help Louvre Buy a Painting

– Metropolitan Museum’s Exhibitions Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú, and American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity Stimulate $784 Million Economic Impact for City

Books

– ‘An Object of Beauty’ by Steve Martin
– NYT review of Steve Martin’s ‘Object of Beauty’
– The Colbert Report, Steve Martin, Part 1
– The Colbert Report, Steve Martin, Part 2

– Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
– The Sitter Depicts the Artist (Art News)

Recommended Web Sites

Connections
On January 5, 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched Connections, a new online interactive feature. New episodes will be posted weekly and feature audio and slide shows of works of art from the Met’s collection. Each episode is presents a theme: the color black, small things, maps, etc.

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