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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

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"A good work of art keeps on becoming new at any different time and era."

Artist Rashid Rana reflects on Umberto Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Rashid Rana, born in 1968, is an artist working in photography, sculpture, and a wide variety of digital media.

Rashid Rana (Pakistani, born Lahore, 1968)

Desperately Seeking Paradise I, 2007-8

Chromogenic print and Diasec and stainless steel; 39.3 × 39.3 × 39.3 in. (300 × 300 × 300 cm). Edition of 3. Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, London © Rashid Rana Photo: Vipul Sangoi

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His works are in various public and private collections including the British Museum London, Metropolitan Museum New York, Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan and Saatchi Collection, London. He is the recipient of the prestigious Game-Changer Asia Art Award and was awarded International Artist of the Year by SAVAC Canada in 2003. Notable for his ideas, imagery and pictorial strategies, Rashid Rana has worked in dramatically different mediums, such as paintings, stainless steel sculptures, video installation, photo-sculptures and photo mosaics. He has exhibited extensively at various galleries and museums globally. He is the first living artist to have a “survey solo exhibition” at the Muse Guimet Paris. In 2015, his work was included in landmark exhibition entitled The Treasures of the World from British Museum, which was held at the National Museum of Singapore and along with Rashid Rana’s work had 239 objects from the entire Human history. His mid-career retrospective Rashid Rana’s solo survey exhibition at the Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi is th

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