The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
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Arenberg Gospels
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Sunday July 19, 2009
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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Come enjoy a Sunday at the Met! This lecture accompanies the exhibition Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages. Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science, Yale University, and the leading authority on information design, discusses how drawings from the Middle Ages exhibit “graphical excellence.” Melanie Holcomb, associate curator of medieval art at the Met, introduces the afternoon’s talk. 3 p.m. in the Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Image: Evangelist Matthew from Arenberg Gospels; Canterbury, England, ca. 1000–1020; The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, M. 869
