The Met Residency Episode M2: One Bottle, Any Bottle

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the second episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Kathy Tu. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

* Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), John Singer Sargent, 1883-1884 * Tomb Effigy of Elizabeth Boott Duveneck, Frank Duveneck, 1891 * One bottle, any bottle.

Music * We hear "Pools of Grey," by Jeff Eden Fair and Starr Parodi. * Then "Ruth & Sylvie," by Daniel Hart. * And "Lost in Space," by Max Richter. * Wien, by Labradford plays beneath the credits.

Special thanks to Gabe Hilfer at Full Pursuit Media. and to Thayer Tolles, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, and Ariana Baurley at the Met for their help episode.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.

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0:00.0	A note to the regular listener of the Memory Palace podcast, I am the artist and residents
0:05.9	of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2016-2017 and am producing 10 pieces for the Met.
0:13.1	This is episode 2 of that project called One Bottle, Any Bottle.
0:19.5	Listen to this one while standing by Case No. 23, Blown molded glass 1810-1875.
0:26.3	You can find it in the southern corner of the top floor catwalk above the courtyard in
0:31.2	the American wing, this in the park.
0:35.5	This is the Memory Palace.
0:37.5	I'm Nate Demet.
0:41.3	Think of the work.
0:43.2	Think of the days spent making that work.
0:46.6	All of it.
0:47.6	Any of it.
0:48.6	Here on display at the museum.
0:52.1	Think of the sittings and sketches, the stretching of canvas, the studies and drafts and false
0:58.2	starts.
0:59.8	Think of John Singer's sergeant posing and reposing Madame X and repose just so.
1:05.1	Who know, let's try standing in black shoulders back.
1:10.2	Think of the days in the studio getting the black just right, in the white, just the right
1:14.0	white.
1:15.5	Think of the work.
1:17.4	Think of the months that Frank Doven spent in the sculpture downstairs.
1:22.0	On the floor, down below in the atrium.
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