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Joan x the Met

all language from Joan Suval / art object labels

 

Rubens painted with the help of assistants but declared

the wolves were his own work.

 

There are no innocent victims.

 

With manly indifference Adonis […]

was gored to death.

 

Pain I cannot prevent. But it’s up to us

whether we suffer.

 

[St. Nicholas] refused to eat cooked partridges

that subsequently flew away.

 

Compassion is the door

that allows us to welcome ourselves back to that same place.

 

The watch

quietly recommends temperance.

 

The witness who is motionless, changeless, who watches all

that changes—what is that?

 

One critic, contemporary of Camille

Corot: Keep your distance.

 

Do you know why A—– is not a cult?

We pay people to go away.

 

[Laughter in the conference room]




Kayla Krut