American artist Man Ray (1890–1976) was a visionary known for his radical experiments that pushed the limits of photography, painting, sculpture, and film.

Featuring 160 rayographs, paintings, objects, prints, drawings, films, and photographs, Man Ray: When Objects Dream will highlight the principal place of the rayograph—a type of cameraless photograph—within the context of many of the artist’s most important works

This incisive publication explores the formal, conceptual, political, and technical aspects of the work of contemporary American artist Charles Ray. For Charles Ray (born 1953), sculpture is a way of thinking that informs his work across a wide range of media-from gelatin silver prints to porcelain, fiberglass, wood, and steel. Spanning the whole of his fifty-year career, Charles Ray: Figure Ground considers the artist's intriguing, often unsettling sculptures from both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in relation to his early photographs and performances. It also explores his interest in Mark Twain's 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Kelly Baum addresses patterns and patterning in Ray's art, foregrounding his engagement with preexisting traditions, classicism among them, as well as charged issues around race, gender, and sexuality. Brinda Kumar investigates the modalities of touch that run through Ray's work, while a reflection by Ray himself and a conversation between the artist and Hal Foster offer further insights into his multifaceted practice.

As its name implies, the X-ray style depicts animals or human figures in which the internal organs and bone structures are clearly visible.

This impressionistic visual diary is a quirky love letter to the Museum featuring long-time employee and artist Ray Cusie.

Explore the exhibition _Charles Ray: Figure Ground_ with two Met curators in this virtual tour, which presents the work of one of the most important contemporary artists.

Art is full of mysteries that can’t be revealed by a quick glance. How do we see what’s hiding inside objects and learn how they were made and repaired? We use an x-ray machine, just like you’d find at the doctor’s office!

From its origins as the basic garb of the Highlander, Scotsmen and non-Scotsmen alike have embraced [the kilt] as uniform, formal and semi-formal wear, and casual everyday wear.

Mutuaga’s spatula at The Met is a product of innovation and adaptation in the face of sweeping colonial and missionary incursions into the Territory of Papua.