July 29, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Garment hook (daigou) in the form of a tiger
China, Eastern Zhou, Warring States Period, 475-221 BC
Bronze, gold, silver
H. 11.4 cm; L. 24 cm; D. 3 cm
ATC601
© The Al Thani Collection 2018. All rights reserved.
Photography by Todd White Art Photography.

 
 
July 29, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Bronze plaque
AD 900–1500
Atacama Desert, Argentina
Copper alloy
20 x 15 cm
Purchased from the Maryland Historical Society
20/8192
© National Museum of the American Indian

 
 
July 28, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Odalisque in Grisaille
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
ca. 1824–34
Oil on canvas
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1938
38.65
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
July 26, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Hunting cheetahs and their keepers
Colonel Eugene Impey, Rajasthan, 1858 - 1865, photographic print.
Made for the Museum, c. 1980-1990.
© Ashmolean Museum

 
 
July 23, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

The Main Gate, New Yoshiwara
c. 1745
Torii Kiyotada (Japanese, active c. 1716–51)
Hand-colored woodblock print; toku-oban yoko-e, beni-e
Clarence Buckingham Collection
1939.2152
© The Art Institute of Chicago

 
 
July 20, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Powder horn
India, 18th century Ivory, copper alloy
Bequest of Pierre Jourdan-Barry as a sign of friendship for Henri Loyrette, 2013
Musee du Louvre, MAO 2257
Department of Islamic Art, MAO 2257 © 2013 Musee du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Hughes Dubois

 
 
June 30, 2026 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Bentwood Hat
© Suomen Kansallismuseo

 
 
June 28, 2026 | Editorial Team
 
June 25, 2026 | Herbert L. Whittier & Patricia R. Whittier
 

Punan Ba'a Baby Carrier
© Borneo Cultures Museum

 
 
June 23, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Ear ornament with winged runner
400–700 CE
Moche
Gold, turquoise, sodalite, shell
Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1966, 1977
66.196.40
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
June 21, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Ornement en forme d'aile pour couronne.
Corée du Sud, Gyeongju, tombe de la couronne d’or, 5e siècle, or, H. 40,8 cm, Gyeongju, musée national, Bongwan 9435
© Musée national de Gyeongju

 
 
June 18, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Lion dit "de Monzon", 10e et 11e siècles, Cordoue, métal (bronze) coulé, décor gravé,
Musée du Louvre - Département des Arts de l'Islam
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Hughes Dubois

 
 
May 31, 2026 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Ancestral Spirit Pillar of the Family House of the Zingur Leader of the Jiaping Old Society
© The Museum of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 中央研究院民族學研究所博物館

 
 
May 29, 2026 | Editorial Team
 

Etruscan, Votive statuette of Hercle, 320‒280 B.C. Bronze. 9 9/16 x 2 3/4 x 3 7/16 in. (24.3 x 7 x 8.7 cm). Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 96.AB.36