#the Met museum

[marzipanandminutiae]

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 ?

[postcardaday]

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

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"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.

[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

[lostcirce]

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.

[countvonroo]

late 18th century British gloves

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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.

[swvrn]

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

[aliensfoundthisblog]

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

[troisenator]

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

[sahmei]

I’m sorry for not posting in a while!! Anyways, here’s some really old studies I did as a freshmen in high school..it’s some of my fav artworks from the MET!

It was originally supposed to be a mini zine ^^

[jungbomjo]

by Wang Jian

[jamiesugah]

I was today years old when I found out that Washington Crossing the Delaware is in the Met.

My friend and I were in the Met as our rainy day backup to the botanic garden (and then it didn’t rain, go figure), and we were in the mezzanine of the American Wing, trying to figure out how to get to this special exhibit on Dutch painters. We started to ask the security guard.

FRIEND: How do we get to -

GUARD: Washington Crossing the Delaware?

FRIEND: That’s...not... Let’s get back to that.

Anyway, we found Washington Crossing the Delaware and it’s ginormous with the most American frame ever. (We also found the Dutch painters exhibit.)

I have lived in this city 15 years. I have been to the Met countless times. I had NO IDEA this painting was even here. I apparently have never spent any amount of time on the second level of the American Wing.