What do we mean when we call an artwork a ‘masterpiece’? Who decides which artwork should be so considered? And which artists’ efforts fall into this subjective category?

In this video, art curator Sarah Urist Gree explores the hallmarks of works that have earned the description, in a journey through the – inevitably biased – canons of art considered most elevated in their day.

View the original video here.

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