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Former Intern Ursula Romero discusses digitizing textile sample books in Thomas J. Watson Library.
Ursula Romero
July 24, 2019
Former Intern Chelsea Fritz discusses various digitization projects she worked on in Thomas J. Watson Library.
Chelsea Fritz
June 26, 2019
Three centuries of light exposure caused a famous still life to fade. Here's how a team of conservators and curators brought it (digitally) back to life.
Gerrit Albertson
June 20, 2019
A new proof-of-concept project developed by The Met and MIT uses artificial intelligence to reveal connections between works of art.
Jennie Choi
June 11, 2019
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Kwade discusses the miniature solar system she built to make sense of an unfathomable universe.
Alicja Kwade
May 24, 2019
With the mysterious text deciphered and the Crucifixion and Last Judgment back in the galleries, curator Maryan Ainsworth muses on the ways in which the frames serve as an integral part of Jan van Eyck's conception for the paintings.
Maryan Ainsworth
March 19, 2019
Now that the originality of the newly uncovered texts on the frames of Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment had been determined, it was time to engage an ace paleographer, Marc Smith, to help decipher these mysterious fragments of words and phrases.
Marc Smith
March 12, 2019
Having recognized through technical examinations that the mysterious fragmentary texts discovered on the frames of Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment were original, a paintings conservator discusses the options for revealing the original inscriptions and how best to restore the frames for presentation in the galleries.
Sophie Scully
March 5, 2019
Earlier this month, more than two hundred attendees, from pre-teens to leading art historians and technologists, gathered in The Met's Great Hall to classify artworks presented on digital screens.
Andrew Lih
March 4, 2019
After a hidden fragmentary text was discovered in the frames of two of the Museum's most treasured paintings, a research scientist and a paintings conservator got down to work performing technical examinations to determine whether the text was original to the paintings.
Silvia A. Centeno and Sophie Scully
February 26, 2019