The Poet of the Information Desk

Robyn Schiff returns to The Met to read from her poem, Information Desk: An Epic in which she recounts what it was like to work at the Museum while establishing herself as a young writer. Though I havent worked inside the Information Desk now for more than twenty years, she writes, the experience has so asserted itself into my art that I regard the Information Desk as my private writing desk; I am always seated there. Watch the video: Artworks mentioned: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 16061669). Self Portrait, 1660. Oil on canvas, 31 5, 8 x 26 1, 2 in. (80. 3 x 67. 3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 Learn more: Follower of Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, third quarter 17th century). Portrait of a Man (The Auctioneer) 165862. Oil on canvas, 42 3, 4 x 34 in. (1 br, br,