Artist Armia Khalil emigrated to the U.S. from Egypt with nothing but $400 and a suitcase of sculpting tools. When his dreams of becoming a professional sculptor didn’t work out, he got a job as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he could at least be in the presence of masters – never imagining that one day his work would be on display here, too. Steve Hartman reports.
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