A guided tour of the museum's current major historical exhibition, which follows the still life genre across roughly four centuries, from symbol-laden 17th-century paintings to playful contemporary reinterpretations.
Over a little more than an hour you'll look closely at the many symbols, lavish flowers and empty, human-free spaces that recur in the works, and at why 17th-century painters loved silverware, glass, gold and rich food as displays of wealth. The tour also looks at how the genre shifted toward everyday life and modernism's focus on the real.
