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Chinese Calligraphy, Juan Gris, Potters, and new exhibitions. [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with Chinese Calligraphy]( [Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with Chinese Calligraphy]( Using brush and ink, scholar and artist Zheng Wei 鄭威 deftly shows the skills required to form the character for rabbit in four different ways, proceeding from the most ancient—seal script—through the different script types of Chinese calligraphy. [Watch now →]( [The Visual Games of Juan Gris]( [The Visual Games of Juan Gris]( How the artist’s unorthodox techniques fool and delight the eye.[Explore now →]( [Examining Storage Jars from the American South]( [Examining Storage Jars from the American South]( Scientific research on food residue found in nineteenth-century stoneware vessels produced by enslaved artisans sheds light on the contents once stored inside. [Read now →]( [The Potters ]( [The Potters]( Across the world, we find rich seams of clay—created from the perfect combination of animal, vegetable, mineral, and circumstance. [Read now →]( [Set in Stone: Maya Rulers in the Great Hall | Installation Time-Lapse]( [Around the World (in 7,665 days)]( Watson Library’s Contemporary Gallery Project. [Learn more →]( [Exhibition Highlights]( [Richard Avedon: MURALS]( [Richard Avedon: MURALS]( JUST OPENED Through October 1, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art]( [Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art]( JUST OPENED Through April 16, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit]( [Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit]( JUST OPENED Through February 4, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art]( [Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art]( FINAL WEEKEND Through January 29, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina]( [Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina]( CLOSING SOON Through February 5, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints]( [The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints]( CLOSING SOON Through February 7, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue [See all current exhibitions →]( [Your Digital Guide to The Met]( [Bloomberg Connects App]( Enhance your visit to The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters with the Bloomberg Connects app. Explore 100 highlights from The Met collection with our free digital guide. 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Images: Dave (later recorded as David Drake) (American, ca. 1801–1870s), Storage jar, 1857. Alkaline-glazed stoneware, Height: 19 in. (48.3 cm). McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Donated by Belle Williams in memory of Admiral Yancy S. Williams. Photo by Eileen Travell | [Jeffrey Gibson: All Good Fires]( (New York: Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 2021). Two of twelve PDF’s donated by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (New York City) | Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004). Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, New York, October 30, 1969. Gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm). Collection of The Richard Avedon Foundation © The Richard Avedon Foundation | Martinus Rørbye. [View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight]((detail), 1839. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007 | [Vase](. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Porcelain painted in cobalt blue under a transparent glaze, H. 23 in. (58.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923 (24.80.168) | Zheng Xie, [Orchids and Bamboo]( (detail), Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1742. Handscroll; ink on paper. Edward Elliott Family Collection, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1981 | nrecorded potter, attributed to Miles Mill Pottery (1867–85). Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. Face jug, 1867–85. Alkaline-glazed stoneware with kaolin, H. 8 in. (20.3 cm). Hudgins Family Collection, New York | Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper (detail), 1952 (published 1968-70). Linocut, block: 17 11/16 x 16 7/8 in. (44.9 x 42.9 cm) sheet: 30 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. John B. Turner Fund, 1981 (1981.1098.1) © 2022 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY