A majorly overlooked topic, but an increasingly more important one, when considering past art is dissecting how museums today obtained […] Read More
Tag: colonialism
“This was the audience hall of the great Persian Empire?” During my long awaited visit to the Apãdana at Persepolis, […] Read More
Artist Michael Rakowitz’s new exhibition is full of gorgeous paper mache recreations of lost Iraqi artifacts, alongside major gaps in […] Read More
Archaic, the Iraq pavilion at the Venice Biennale, was presented by the Ruya Foundation in 2017. The pavilion includes works […] Read More
Today we will look closely at two more monuments intended to glorify kings, created about 500 years apart. Building on […] Read More
Why are so many of the objects we studied in this unit in European or American museums? Why do terrorist […] Read More
Two topics today: 1) Why did millions of Americans stand in line for up to five hours to catch a […] Read More
The Parthenon in its ancient context can be understood simultaneously as an idealized representation of Athenian democracy, as a trophy […] Read More
Road networks and acqueducts were two of the perks of being part of the Roman empire — but the benefits […] Read More