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Khan Academy: How Did They Get All This Stuff Into the Museum?

4th - 8th
Art comes in all shapes and sizes. Have you ever wondered how the Met fits it inside the building? Find out with Tobias, age 9. [2:54]
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Khan Academy: Assyria to Iberia: A Journey Through Land and Sea

9th - 10th
In this video [1:43] MetKids invites you to celebrate the exhibition Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age.
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Khan Academy: Weave on a Mini Loom

9th - 11th
In this animated video [3:07] learn how to weave yarn on a mini cardboard loom.
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Khan Academy: Draw and Ink Comic Panels

9th - 10th
In this video [1:21] follow along and learn how to draw and ink panels for your very own comic panels.
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Khan Academy: Museum Mile 2015

1st - 9th
This video [1:44] celebrates art and museums at the 2015 Museum Mile event!
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Khan Academy: Lunar New Year Festival 2015

9th - 10th
This video [2:13] shows the Lunar New Year, families marked the Year of the Ram, and enjoyed performances, interactive gallery activities, and artist-led workshops!
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Khan Academy: Jan Gossart: Conservation Discoveries

9th - 10th
This video [9:29] Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting....
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Khan Academy: Craftsman Allan Breed Carves a Bow Knot and Thunderbolt Crest

9th - 10th
This video [5:55] craftsman Allan Breed demonstrates low-relief carving, taking us through the creation of a bow knot and thunderbolt crest motif after the renowned nineteenth-century furniture maker Duncan Phyfe. As he works, Breed...
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Khan Academy: Craftsman Allan Breed Turns and Carves a Duncan Phyfe Bedpost

9th - 10th
In this video [6:58] Allan Breed turns and carves a bedpost after the renowned nineteenth-century furniture maker Duncan Phyfe, taking us through the carving of a leaf motif. As he works, Breed explains the cuts, the tools, and the...
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Khan Academy: Fiesta! Celebrate Latin America: Celebren America Latina

9th - 10th
In this video [1:46] Connect and celebrate during our annual Museum-wide festival celebrating Latin America!
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Khan Academy: Conserving the Damascus Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

9th - 10th
This video [3:19] features the Damascus Room [1707] which served as the reception area within a Syrian home of the Ottoman period. Extensive conservation and historical research were carried out by the Metropolitan Museum in preparation...
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Khan Academy: Conserving the Emperors Carpet

9th - 10th
This video [8:33] focuses on the magnificent sixteenth-century Emperor's Carpet from Safavid Iran was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in 1941, but its condition was so fragile that it was only displayed for public twice over the next...
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Khan Academy: Congyi, Cloudy Mountains

9th - 10th
In this video [2:25] Met curator Maxwell K. Hearn on emptiness in Fang Congyi's Cloudy Mountains, second half of 14th century. Congyi,imbued with Daoist mysticism, painted landscapes that "turned the shapeless into shapes and returned...
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Khan Academy: Homer, Northeaster

9th - 10th
In this video [2:48] Met curator H. Barbara Weinberg on the power of nature in Winslow Homer's Northeaster, 1895; reworked by 1901.
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Khan Academy: El Greco, View of Toledo

9th - 10th
In this video [2:45] Met curator George Goldner on first impressions in El Greco's View of Toledo. In his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for most of his life. The painting belongs to the...
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Khan Academy: Gifford, a Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)

9th - 10th
In this video [2:42] Met curator Betsy Kornhauser on solace in Sanford Robinson Gifford's A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove), 1862.
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Khan Academy: Fenton, Landscape With Clouds

9th - 10th
In this video [2:45] Met curator Malcolm Daniel on humility in Roger Fenton's [Landscape with Cloud], probably 1856.
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Khan Academy: Cylinder Seal & Modern Impression:nude Bearded Hero Wrestling

9th - 10th
In this video [2:26] Met curator Yelena Rakic on reading into Cylinder seal and modern impression: nude bearded hero wrestling with a water buffalo; bull-man wrestling with lion from Mesopotamia, c. 2250-2150 B.C.E.
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Khan Academy: Marble Capital and Finial in the Form of a Sphinx

9th - 10th
In this video [2:40] Met curator Kiki Karoglou on dangerous beauty in Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx dating from the Attic period of ancient Greece, ca. 530 B.C.E. This capital and sphinx originally crowned the tall...
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Khan Academy: Ewer

9th - 10th
In this video [2:51] Met curator Ellenor Alcorn on the creative moment in Ewer, a work of Chinese porcelain with English mounts, 1573-1620; mounts c. 1585. The ewer shown here is one of a group of Chinese porcelains of the Wan Li period...
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Khan Academy: Tiffany, Hair Ornament

9th - 10th
In this video [2:34] Met curator Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen on transience in Louis Comfort Tiffany's Hair Ornament, c. 1904.
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Khan Academy: Card Table

9th - 10th
In this video [2:34] Met curator Peter Kenny on international style in Charles-Honore Lannuier's Card table, 1817. This card table with a sculpture quality, was created in New York by a French artist.
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Khan Academy: Hunt, the Great Hall

9th - 10th
In this video [2:53] Met curator Morrison Heckscher on form and function in Richard Morris Hunt's The Great Hall.
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Khan Academy: Poiret, Paris

9th - 10th
In this video [2:35] Met curator Harold Koda on the genius of design in Paul Poiret's Paris, 1919. This garment was made of a single piece of material and had only one seam.