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Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art
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Luke Syson was a curator of Renaissance art, of transcendent paintings of saints and solemn Italian ladies -- 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 … (Filmed at TEDxMet.)
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TED.com
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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, art, arts, design, history, museums, TEDxMet, 2013
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