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Decoding the Silver Caesars: A Conversation with Mary Beard and Julia Siemon, Part Two

Senior Editor Sumi Hansen interviews Cambridge classicist Mary Beard and Assistant Research Curator Julia Siemon about the stories behind the images on the famous Aldobrandini Tazze.

Sumi Hansen Feb 20, 2018

Decoding the Silver Caesars: A Conversation with Mary Beard and Julia Siemon, Part One

A conversation with Cambridge classicist Mary Beard and Assistant Research Curator Julia Siemon about the exhibition The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery, on view at The Met.

Sumi Hansen Jan 23, 2018

Unearthing Hatshepsut, Egypt's Most Powerful Female Pharaoh

Digital Editor Pac Pobric looks to a statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut to explain how a female king was depicted by artists.

Pac Pobric Jan 22, 2018

The Magical Powers of Egyptian Faience

Digital Editor Pac Pobric introduces a new Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essay about Egyptian faience and how it was made.

Pac Pobric Jan 8, 2018

“How does an outsider get in?” Kerry James Marshall on his painting, Untitled (Studio)

Nov 17, 2016

“Where are the boundaries of American art?”

Ronda Kasl Feb 23, 2016

"Can a work of art reclaim history?" Scholar David Driskell on Aaron Douglas's Painting Let My People Go.

Nov 17, 2015

Artist Alexander Melamid reflects on Ernest Meissonier's 1807, Friedland in this episode of The Artist Project.

Mar 25, 2015

"The central problem of Western civilization is reduced to one guy who’s got to puzzle it out for himself."

Aug 21, 2013