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Detail of the curves of a clay vessel with stripes of dark and light red clay
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Immaterial: Clay
Touch it, smell it... eat it?
June 22, 2022
Detail of a concrete object with a crack running up the left side
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Immaterial: Concrete
What makes concrete so controversial? Well, it’s complicated.
June 8, 2022
A digital collage of Omene cigarette cards
Immaterial: Bonus Feature, The Mystery and Legacy of Omene
How one woman uncovered the lost identity of her great-grandmother through cigarette cards.
Benjamin Korman
June 6, 2022
Detail of an ink and watercolor painting on paper with plants, leaves, and other organic elements
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Immaterial: Paper
Get a handle on palm-sized ephemera in The Met collection.
May 25, 2022
The inside of a conch shell with the text "Immaterial"
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Introducing: Immaterial
Get up close and personal with artists’ materials to see what they can tell us about art, history, and humanity.
May 18, 2022
Rows and rows of freshly made pieces of Japanese pottery.
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Japanese Pottery and Porcelain, 1955
In this mesmerizing short film about Japanese pottery and porcelain, the human hand and machine work in harmony. Follow the creative process from start to finish—gathering and preparing raw clay, wedging, throwing, firing, glazing, and later presenting finished work in the showroom.
March 25, 2022
Art Historian and Met educator Emmanuel von Schack standing beside Juan Gris's cubist painting, "Still Life with Checked Tablecloth"
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ASL Tour of "Still Life with Checked Tablecloth" by Juan Gris
Explore Juan Gris’s cubist masterpiece Still Life with Checked Tablecloth. Presented in American Sign Language.
January 7, 2022
Image of women to the right of a chiaroscuro woodcut with makeup that looks like the woodcut.
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How To Look Like a 17th-century Woodcut Print
Transform yourself into a seventeenth-century Italian work of art with a step-by-step makeup tutorial and art history lesson on chiaroscuro woodcuts.
Cecilia Zhou
October 15, 2021
Composite image of King Henry VIII's armor and armor conservator Edward Hunter
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Dressing in Armor
Join a Met expert and learn how armor is mounted and displayed in the galleries. Focus on a unique set of armor that probably belonged to King Henry VIII of England.
September 18, 2021
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Refashioning the Lavoisiers
A team of experts from across The Met gains new understanding of Jacques Louis David’s iconic portrait.
Silvia A. Centeno, Dorothy Mahon, and David Pullins
September 1, 2021