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Two men and one woman stands in a gallery of stoneware objects, looking and gesturing to one white sculpture.
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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
Ana de Orbegoso visiting Containing the Divine: Peru. Photo by Mandy Kritzeck
Learn how the artist updates ancient Andean aesthetics to reflect the world today.
Mandy Kritzeck
September 16, 2022
Detail shot of the keys of the Cristofori Piano
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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
Limestone Assyrian relief with a low-relief carving of two men bearing gifts
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Two scholars consider the displacement of Assyrian people and their art.
Sarah Graff and Sargon Donabed
August 3, 2022
The Met Fifth facade
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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
Marble portrait bust of the emperor Gaius, known as Caligula
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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
Archaeologist Ulrike Koch Brinkmann painting a copy of an ancient Greek sculpture
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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
Detail view of the inside of a conch shell
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It all began with the call of the conch.
July 6, 2022
Detail of a concrete object with a crack running up the left side
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What makes concrete so controversial? Well, it’s complicated.
June 8, 2022
Detail of an ancient Egyptian limestone statue of Hatshepsut
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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