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

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. ) TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minute