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Join co-curators Adrienne Spinozzi, Ethan Lasser, and Jason Young for a virtual tour of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina.
September 22, 2022
Learn how the artist updates ancient Andean aesthetics to reflect the world today.
Mandy Kritzeck
September 16, 2022
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How Cristofori’s invention gave a new voice to the harpsichord.
Jayson Kerr Dobney and Anthony Roth Costanzo
September 7, 2022
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Two scholars consider the displacement of Assyrian people and their art.
Sarah Graff and Sargon Donabed
August 3, 2022
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Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, for a virtual tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective celebrating the renowned German artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015), who changed the course of late twentieth-century photography.
July 28, 2022
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Two scholars discuss misconceptions about race and polychromy in the ancient world.
Sarah Lepinski and Dan-el Padilla Peralta
July 7, 2022
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Archaeologists Vinzenz and Ulrike Koch Brinkmann reflect on how reconstructing the former color of an ancient Roman bust can help us better understand history.
July 7, 2022
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It all began with the call of the conch.
July 6, 2022
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What makes concrete so controversial? Well, it’s complicated.
June 8, 2022
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What does the androgynous depiction of Hatshepsut—and its subsequent destruction—tell us about the role of gender in Ancient Egypt?
Aude Semat and Mona Eltahawy
June 2, 2022