Preparing clay (2)
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Red and yellow clay (background)
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Leirhnjukur (Clay Hill) rhyolite formation with hot sulfuric springs at Krafla volcanic area in Mývatn region, Northeastern Iceland
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Madagascar, Analamanga region, clay brick production on the riverbank near Antananarivo
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Scanning electron microscope images (200×) of the deferrified clay fraction of the Xanthic Acrustox (soil 9) before (left) and after (right) the spray drying treatment. Alves, Marcelo, Y. P. Mascarenhas, D.H. French, and C. P. M. Vaz. “Rietveld-based mineralogical quantitation of deferrified oxisol clays.” Australian Journal of Soil Research 45 (2007): 224–32.
#MetKids—How to Make a Clay Pot: Coil and Pinch
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AFPR—Meet The Artists: Chuma Maweni
Managing producer: Kate Farrell; producer: Melissa Bell; editor: Lela Jenkins; graphic design: Abby Chen; music: Austin Fisher; photographs: Paul Lachenauer. Video courtesy of Southern Guild.
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Master potter working with clay
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Potter puts a clay pot in a kiln
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Close-up of ancient buried pottery as archaeologists gently clean the dirt
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Village women at shoreline collecting clay to make pottery, Myanmar
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Extreme close-up of clay sediment with particles smaller than 0.002mm
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Silver ore from silver mines
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Mercury
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Jaspilite banded iron formation, Soudan Underground State Park
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Tungurahua Volcano eruption
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Gold panning
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Lighting bulb
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Brown snail without shell
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Workers pouring liquid molten metal
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Close-up of handmade metal embossed tag being made
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Industrial worker welding
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Powerful fiery blow of blacksmith with hammer on metal
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Buses on Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York
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Metalworking at Tiffany & Co.: Mokume-gane | Materials and Techniques
Director: Rebecca Rau; producer: Melissa Bell; director of photography: Joshua Kun; graphic design: Mortimer Lebigre; mokume-gane artist: Wendy Yothers; consultants: Medill Higgins Harvey and Moira Gallagher; special thanks to: Fashion Institute of Technology Department of Jewelry Design.
© 2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
#MetKids—Art Under X-Ray: What’s Inside the Art?
Head of Digital Content: Sofie Andersen; executive producer: Sarah Wambold; director/writer/producer: Benjamin Korman; animation direction: Lisa LaBracio; art direction: Lisa LaBracio; design and illustration: Tara Sunil Thomas; animation: Sara Zarul Azham and Lisa LaBracio; Experiment photography: Mia Nacamulli; production coordinators: Lela Jenkins and Emma Masdeu-Perez; narrators: Corin Wells and Debbie Schorsch; education consultants: Emily Blumenthal, Darcy-Tell Morales, and Julie Marie Seibert; episode consultants: Debbie Schorsch, Isabel Stuenkel, and Marco Leona; original music: Austin Fisher; sound mix: Dave Raymond; additional photography: Peter Berson; special thanks to Téo Nacamulli Tabet.
© 2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Looking up a General Sherman tree
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Forest trail scene with woodland path
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Log pile
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Acacia tree in Ras Muhammed National Park, Egypt
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Bamboo forest
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Tree rings on a cut log in a conifer forest
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Vascular tissue of mature pine (Pinus spec.)
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Craftsman carving with a gouge
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Simon Nowep, Kambot wood painting
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Carpenter cutting wood with a handsaw in a carpentry shop
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Green Elf Cup fungi, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, growing on rotten wood
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Boy inlays wooden tabletop, Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, Cairo, Egypt, 1977
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Woodcut
Featured artwork: Liz Zanis (American, born 1980). Big Rocks, 2018. Woodcut and woodblock. Courtesy of the artist.
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How was it made? Block printing William Morris Wallpaper | V&A
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Dominican Republic percussionist Bralen Robles performs tambora solo with El Prodigio band
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Sonic Cloisters: Jlin | MetLiveArts
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Khol Improvisation, performed by Samir Chatterjee. Filmed in the gallery for the art of Mughal South Asia and Later South Asia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 13, 2013. A production of the Digital Media Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Produced and directed by Christopher Noey; edited by Kate Farrell; camera by Kelly Richardson and Jessica Glass; lighting by Ned Hallick; sound recording and post-production audio by David Raymond; production coordinator: Stephanie Wuertz; production assistants: Sarah Cowan, Kate Farrell, and Maureen Coyle. Organized by the Department of Musical Instruments: J. Kenneth Moore, Frederick P. Rose curator-in-charge; Jayson Kerr Dobney, Associate Curator and Administrator; Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Associate Curator; P. Allen Roda, Research Fellow; Susana Caldeira, Assistant Conservator; Joseph Peknik III, Principal Technician; Pamela Summey, Programs Coordinator; Marian Eines, Associate for Administration
© 2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Silver Lining, written and performed by Glen Velez on the the Bodhran. Filmed in The Koç Family Galleries featuring Carpets, Textiles, and the Greater Ottoman World and Arts of the Ottoman Court (14th–20th centuries), on August 1, 2018. Production support was provided by The Augustine Foundation.
Director: Kate Farrell; producer: Melissa Bell; editor: Alex Guns; camera: Alex Guns and Kelly Richardson; lighting: Ned Hallick; gaffer: Christopher Yurnet; sound recording and post-production audio: David Raymond; production coordinator: Kaelan Burkett; production assistants: Stephanie Wuertz and Sarah Cowan.
Organized by the Department of Musical Instruments: Jayson Kerr Dobney, Frederick P. Rose Curator-in-Charge; Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Associate Curator; J. Kenneth Moore, Curator Emeritus; Tim Caster, Principal Technician; Pamela Summey, Programs Coordinator
© 2018 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Medieval Sculpture Hall (Gallery 305)
Photograph by Mark Morosse © 2011 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NASA’s Webb Reveals Cosmic Cliffs, Glittering Landscape of Star Birth
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam image)
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Dispersion of white light to colors in the prism
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Optical glass pyramid with visible spectrum wave rays
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Cube light rainbow refraction prism
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Three primary colors of light mixing (animation)
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Macro shot of a soap bubble
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Single white light beam expands via prism to form laser light show
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Ultraviolet neon wave glowing laser curves flowing in reflective room
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Northern lights in Norway, Canada, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden (animation)
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Timelapse of bioluminescent glow worms in cave, New Zealand
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Bioluminescent phytoplankton illuminating the ocean along the coast at the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, near Cape Town, South Africa
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Warty comb jellyfish
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Light pillars timelapse
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Refraction of light through a glass
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Purple and Blue rays of light refraction
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Water surface
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Double rainbow formed in spray Gullfoss, Iceland
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Nalini Malani dOCUMENTA 13; In Search of Vanished Blood, 2012
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Musical Automaton Clock with Spinet and Organ
Featured artwork: Musical Automaton Clock with Spinet and Organ, ca. 1625. Veit Langenbucher (1587–1631) and Samuel Bidermann and Son (1540–1622). German, Augsburg. Silver, brass, iron, gilding, ebony, hardwood, parchment, leather, textile, paint. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 2002 (2002.323a–f)
© 2019 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Behind the Scenes: The Working Side of the Museum, 1928 | From the Vaults
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