Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time

How do art conservators save video art from obsolescence? If a painting on canvas rips or ... more

How did one tree become a world-famous tonewood for guitars? Deep in the forests of Belize... more

An archaeologist and an artist walk into a dump…  For most of us, we throw our garbage to ... more

What can the tiny chia seed reveal about the history of oil painting? For centuries, one o... more

What happens when our most intimate possessions end up in art museums? Blankets comfort an... more

What is hidden in the 'empty' spaces of an art museum? The Met is more than a museum of ar... more

How does an artist give presence to absence? Bronze, wood, paint, and stone—classic materi... more

What happens when the unbreakable breaks? Throughout art museums around the world, you’ll ... more

What is hiding in the material choices of artists and makers? Immaterial, The Metropolitan... more

Grab a cup of tea and join us for a bonus episode on tarot. We learn about the cards from ... more

In the second part of our alchemical journey, we meet what ancient philosophers called the... more

Philosophers and scientists have tried for millennia to crack the code of alchemy: the art... more

Take a spin through The Met and you’ll find thousands of items made from linen. From a 3,5... more

Deep in the riverbeds of Aotearoa New Zealand’s South Island, you’ll find a stone that’s a... more

It all begins with a sea creature—a snail called a conch—and the mathematically perfect sp... more

In seventeenth-century Europe, some of the wealthiest women in the world were doing someth... more

Concrete is full of contradictions. First it’s dust, then liquid, then hard as stone. It’s... more

Valentines, comic books, cigarette cards and more—all of these objects can be meaningful, ... more

Introducing Immaterial, a brand new podcast from The Met. Hosted by poet Camille T. Dungy,... more