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Making Materials Strange: Gold, Wood, and Bronze

Free, though advance registration is required.

Join us this spring to hear the leading minds and rising voices of their fields as our current Met fellows explore new research avenues in art history, visual culture, education, and cultural heritage preservation. These live, online presentations on their research take place at 10 am–12 pm and 1–3 pm, May 4, May 5, May 11, May 12, May 18, and May 19.

See the fellows' presentation abstracts.

Please note: These live events take place on Zoom. Free, though advance registration is required.

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Don't miss the fellows' in-person talks, readings, musical performances, and other activations of The Met galleries on Friday, May 5, May 12, and May 19. Free with Museum admission; registration is not required.

View the full Research Out Loud schedule of online presentations and in-person gallery events.

Today's presentations:

Charting Biblical Gold, from India and Havilah to Medieval Europe
Joseph Salvatore Ackley, J. Clawson Mills Scholar, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Too Beautiful to Be Described: Technical Art History, Iridescence, and Early Modern Insect Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection
Olivia Dill, 24-Month Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow, Department of Drawings and Prints

Body-Builder, the Moving Bronze
Derek Coulombe, Chester Dale Fellow, Education Department

Marian Devotion and "Reconquest" Rhetoric in Medieval Navarre 
Cristina Aldrich, Marica and Jan Vilcek Curatorial Fellow, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Discussant: C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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