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Met Exhibition to Explore How Black Artists Have Engaged with Ancient Egypt Over the Last 150 Years

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now presents nearly 200 works of art that demonstrate the many ways in which ancient Egypt has been a source of inspiration and identity for Black artists and other cultural figures

editorial

Celebrating the 15th International Zine Month at Watson Library

July 17, 2024

By Melissa Raymond and Clara Salyer

A selection of Watson’s international zines.

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Met Exhibition to Explore How Black Artists Have Engaged with Ancient Egypt Over the Last 150 Years

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Metropolitan Museum Concerts Celebrate the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Past Exhibition

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now

November 17, 2024–February 17, 2025

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. I…

Essay

Cosmic Buddhas in the Himalayas

June 1, 2017

By Kurt Behrendt

For the devout, the veneration of these five [celestial] Buddhas offered a direct path to breaking free of the cycle of rebirth, a goal facilitated by their innumerable manifestations that make up the Himalayan Buddhist pantheon.

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An Artist of Her Time: Y. G. Srimati and
the Indian Style

Essay

Speaking Objects From the World of Islam

October 25, 2022

Works of art from the Islamic world are often decorated with beautiful calligraphic inscriptions which can be the key to the meaning and function of the object.

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