June 22, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

동제 두 마리 용 무늬 거울 고려
銅製雙龍文圓形鏡 高麗
Mirror decorated with dragons
Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
11th–12th century
Korea
Bronze
Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number: 11.48.1
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
June 19, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Princess head, reddish-brown quartzite.
Photo Ole Haupt © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

 
 
June 16, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Composite Elephant
India, Agra, ca. 1600
Watercolours and gold on paper
AKM143
© The Aga Khan Museum

Painted in Mughal India ca. 1600, this painting, once mounted in an album, shows a majestic crowned peri (fairy) and its elephant mount formed from multiple, interlocking creatures, packed tightly together — birds, mythical and actual quadrupeds, and humans. Guiding them is a footman dressed in the garb of an Indian qalandar (itinerant mystic), who is overpainted in luminous translucent white, forming a stark contrast to the motley, crowded figures behind him.

 
 
June 13, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Our Planet II.
Ed Charles/Netflix © 2023

 
 
May 30, 2023 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Detail of a Door Lintel | Pare
© The Cleveland Museum of Art

 
 
May 28, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Shadow Puppets (Wayang Kulit) of the Five Pandavas, from the set Kyai Nugroho
Maker: Ki Kertiwanda
Maker: Ki Bekel Prawirasucitra
The Dr. Walter Angst and Sir Henry Angest Collection
2018.130.1.102
© Yale University Art Gallery

 
 
May 26, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

倶生神立像
Gushōjin
Kamakura period (1185–1333)
13th century
Wood with traces of pigment and lacquer
The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
1975.268.700a–c
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
May 25, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Portrait du roi Jayavarman VII (1181-vers 1220)
Cambodge, Angkor, Ta Prohm, fin 12e-début 13e siècle
Grès
H. 41 cm ; L. 26 cm ; P. 33 cm
Paris, musée Guimet, dépôt permanent de la faculté des sciences de Marseille (1965), P 430
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (MNAAG, Paris) / Michel Urtado

 
 
May 24, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Detail of Hidden hut in the mountains. Leaf b from the album Silent Poetry, Shen Hao (active 1630–1650), Ming or Qing dynasty, around 1640, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, RCH 1148g, Gift of Charles A. Drenowatz © Museum Rietberg, Zurich, photo: Rainer Wolfsberger.

 
 
May 22, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Carved and Painted Bentwood Chest with Lid
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss