#the Met museum

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The Met Used AI For Their New Costume Institute Exhibition And I'm Not Sure How I Feel About It.

breakdown:

How did they use AI? Was it in a capacity where they could have used human digital artists? The wording on the website makes it sound like they used both- whether anyone was put out of a potential job by it has a huge impact on how I feel about it. But that's not disclosed online

"We used AI and CGI to demonstrate how these fragile garments would move on a body!" you all will do ANYTHING but talk to real people who have lived experience of wearing similar clothing- many of whom are also museum professionals and historians! Historical Costumer and History Worker are not mutually exclusive! friendly reminder that Abby Cox and Nicole Rudolph and Cheyney McKnight and many others all work or have worked in this field professionally beyond the YouTube space, to say nothing of people like Ruth Goodman who do experiential archaeology fully outside of social media! -won't you like geez. I'd rather have a video of Nicole Rudolph spinning in a Worth replica you paid her to make and demonstrate than an AI holograph, personally

Any incursion of AI into the museum-space worries me deeply even though AI can't do my jobs within the field...for now. If we don't stand up for those first affected, we will all fall eventually, I feel. Even nonprofits aren't immune to cost-cutting measures, especially those that run on a shoestring budget as most of our orgs do.

[loamiest]

is this Anything ?

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"BOY, WHERE'S THE FIRE?" -- HOW TO SIGNIFY A FIREFIGHT IN THE EDO PERIOD.

Artist: Utagawa Yoshitora.

Title: The Flowers of Edo Children's Amusement; Fireman, First Squad, "Yo" Brigade.

Date: c. 1858

Details: ARC Ukiyo-e Database

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA.

Source: https://ukiyo-e.org/image/met/DP148993.

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"[My grandmother and Mrs. Vreeland] were very similar, and they both gave me unconditional love."

André Leon Talley and Diana Vreeland, his mentor, during her position at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974. Pictured is the iconic dress worn by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film Shanghai Express.

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Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1983)

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Orchid with Peach Trees and Cypresses, Van Gogh

[April 1888, oil on canvas]

Dotting, using Georges Seurat’s fine-tuned technique, to orchestrate this scintillating composition. Diagonal strokes used in the Cypresses to create a contrast to the delicate dabs of pastel colour used on the Peach Trees.

[theseimmortalcoils]

A splendid gown with sweeping wide skirts by John Galliano for Dior - Spring/summer 1998, France.

Silk ball gown "Maria-Luisa (dite Coré)” from The Met Museum, New York, America.

Via @inprettyfinery

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View of Oyster Bay (detail), c. 1908 Tiffany Studios, New York

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[itsjustanne]

Views at the MET

Top row: Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas, Jean Cornu, 1704; Detail from a Room at Hôtel on the Cours d'Albert in Bordeaux

Bottom row: Detail from Palais Paar in Vienna; Temperance, Giovanni Caccini, 1578/84.

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“The Met Gala is basically The Hunger Games” he tweeted on the latest smartphone release from his high rise apartment in a gentrified neighborhood.

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late 18th century British gloves

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Watercolor painting made at the Met; Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova

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Summary: A "Virtual Museum Tour" by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, focusing on the one of the tapestries in The Hunt of the Unicorn series, talking about the gallery where it's displayed, the Early 15th Century culture when it was made, the symbolism of the plants and animals depicted, the craft employed in making it, and a bit of evidence of who the master weaver was. Explained by a few of the curators at the museum, who are especially fond of this piece.

Premiered 1 August, 2020. Proper closed captions. Some eye contact (small part of the screen). ~30 minutes.

I don't usually post videos this long, but this is in my Top 5 favorite works of art, ever. And I had to share the squee.

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (hacia 1833) 歌川広重画　月に雁 [Gansos salvajes volando bajo la luna llena] [Grabado en madera] Museo Metropolitano de Arte, Nueva York, NY, Estados Unidos