Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love “useless” art

This quick TED talk entry is courtesy of TED.com. 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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