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The most musical tree in the world.
August 27, 2024
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Making and breaking legacies.
June 4, 2024
A collaboration reveals new research on an archaic Greek sphinx finial at The Met.
Dorothy H. Abramitis, Elena Basso, Federico Carò, Séan Hemingway, Sarah Lepinski, and Marco Leona
August 12, 2022
How did ancient Egyptians create dazzling paintings? Let's explore the process, and then try making your own tools for painting!
Anna Serotta, Julie Marie Seibert, and Isabel Stünkel
July 20, 2020
Conservators at The Met analyzed the cracks on a small ancient figurine of Aphrodite and learned something new about its construction.
Jean-François de Lapérouse and Federico Carò
May 24, 2019
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Conservator Caitlin Mahony consults with Chuna McIntyre, a Yup'ik dancer, on her approach to conserving a Yup'ik mask.
Caitlin Mahony and Chuna McIntyre
February 4, 2019
Digital Editor Pac Pobric introduces a new Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essay on the uses of silver in ancient Egypt.
Pac Pobric
October 19, 2018
Three experts respond to a writer's desire to know more about Remington's tour-de-force sculpture, bringing us a detailed analysis of, and a glimpse inside, The Old Dragoons of 1850.
Linda Borsch, Federico Carò, and Thayer Tolles
September 6, 2018
Conservator Lucretia Kargère discusses two twelfth-century sculptures in the Museum's collection that have been reunited at The Met Cloisters on the occasion of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
Lucretia Kargère
May 22, 2018
Digital Editor Pac Pobric introduces three new Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essays surveying the art and history of ancient Egypt.
Pac Pobric
April 9, 2018