On and off throughout the 1990s, the poet Robyn Schiff fielded questions — many bathroom-related — as part of her job working the museum’s famous octagonal information desk. By Maggie Lange During a ...

When Prof. Robyn Schiff sat at the information desk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she felt as if, “I was living my life at the center of the world.” Nearly 30 years later, Schiff ...

Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk: An Epic is a repository of facts. For example: Rembrandt painted the red dress in “The Jewish Bride” (1665–1669) with pigment made from ground cochineal insects; in ...

Schiff (A Woman of Property) revisits her days as an employee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in this breathtaking sweep through personal and public history. A three-part epic subdivided by ...