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Janet Carfiff in the Cloisters is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

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The Daily Pic: At the Met, Janet Cardiff's sound art is much more than the great old music it riffs on.

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(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Wilson Santiago)
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The speakers for “Forty Part Motet,” Janet Cardiff’s great 2001 sound piece, were recently installed in the Fuentidueña Chapel at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum’s special venue for Medieval art.

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