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Do you connect more with art after doing jumping jacks and listening to the Bee Gees? Brian Schaefer joins a run-through at the Met museum in New York.

In early December, a small group clad in athleisure jogged through the empty galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the sounds of the Bee Gees. They performed jumping jacks in front of Antonio Canova’s marble “Perseus with the Head of Medusa,” did squats in front of John Singer Sargent’s elegant “Madame X,” and stretched their arms before Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s towering bronze statue of Diana—who, as the musical accompaniment suggested... Keep reading on The New Yorker

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