August 18, 2022 | John Richens
 

Father Petrus Vertenten, (1884-1946), campaigner for medical intervention and artist, with Marind warrior, Barenda.
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

 
 
August 15, 2022 | Editorial Team
 

Detail of a Janiform club, ùu. The Marquesas Islands. Late 18th–early 19th century. Wood. L: 140 cm. Ligabue Collection, Venice.
© Collection Ligabue, photo: Hughes Dubois.

 
 
August 12, 2022 | Editorial Team
 

宋 緙絲花鳥紋包首
Scroll Cover with Birds and Flowers
Song dynasty (960–1279)
12th century
China
Silk and metallic thread tapestry (kesi)
Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1966
66.174b
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
August 10, 2022 | Editorial Team
 

Terracotta cosmetic vase
4th quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Archaic
East Greek
The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1977
1977.11.3
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
July 27, 2022 | Dr. Reimar Schefold
 

Portal in front of the Sakuddei uma, decorated with birds and a small human figure with bark cloth loincloth and tattoo lines to attract benevolent spirits and the souls of the inhabitants during a puliaijat ritual, 1974.
© Dr. Reimar Schefold

 
 
July 25, 2022 | Steven G. Alpert
 

The Bronze Weaver
ca. 6th Century A.D.
Flores Island
Accession Number: 2006.412
© National Gallery of Australia

 
 
 
July 22, 2022 | Editorial Team

Vertical-Eyed Bronze Mask
Shang Dynasty ca.1600 - 1046 BC
© The Sanxingdui Museum

 
 
July 21, 2022 | Editorial Team
 

Clearing Weather in the Back Field (Uratanbo no seiran): Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Danshichi Kurobei (R), Kataoka Gadō II as Issun Tokubei, and Nakayama Ichizō I as Mikawaya Giheiji (L), from the series Eight Views of the Floating World (Ukiyo hakkei no uchi)
Edo period, 1855, 4th month
Japan
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
H x W (right): 35.9 × 25.2 cm (14 1/8 × 9 15/16 in); H x W (left): 35.9 × 25 cm (14 1/8 × 9 7/8 in)
The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
S2021.5.488a-b

 
 
July 18, 2022 | Editorial Team
 

Funerary mask of Wendjebauendjed
Egyptian, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21
Gold, alabaster, and glass, 8 x 7 x 6 in. (20.3 x 17.8 x 15.2 cm)
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
JE 87753, SR 1/10013
Photograph by Sandro Vannini
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

 
 
July 13, 2022 | Editorial Team