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Paper Conservation
Shimmering jewels in Pahari School paintings.
Olivia Dill and Marina Ruiz Molina
May 27, 2025
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For decades, the work of Native American artist Mary Sully remained largely unseen. A discovery in a basement brought this great artist’s work to light.
November 14, 2024
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This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions
October 3, 2022
Audio
Dive into the magic of iron, bronze, lead, and copper.
August 17, 2022
Audio
Get a handle on palm-sized ephemera in The Met collection.
May 25, 2022
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Watch a video about the conservation of Albrecht Dürer's Arch of Honor of Maximilian I, a monumental woodblock print made up of thirty-six sheets of paper.
Freyda Spira and Rachel Mustalish
October 18, 2019
A paper conservator reveals the unique artistic method by which the Pahari painters translated the gods of literary epic onto polished paper.
Marina Ruiz Molina
March 13, 2019
An investigation into materials used by Thornton Dial sheds new light on the artist's practice and the symbolism of his work.
Marina Ruiz Molina
October 2, 2018
Learn more about the unique textures and media used in Juan Gris’s papier collé, Book and Glass (1914).
Rachel Mustalish
October 1, 2018
What does it take to put together a grand exhibition? Learn from Elizabeth Benjamin, the research associate for Visitors to Versailles, about the many experts across the Museum who brought Versailles to The Met.
Elizabeth Benjamin
July 18, 2018