May 31, 2025 | Steven G. Alpert

Totemic Human Mask
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
May 28, 2025 | Editorial Team
 
May 27, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Canoe Figurehead (Nguzu Nguzu, Musu Musu, or Toto Isu)
New Georgia Island(?)
Solomon Islands, New Georgia Island possibly, Western province
Late 19th–early 20th century
Wood, paint, shell
H. 5 1/4 × W. 2 1/4 × D. 3 3/4 in. (13.3 × 5.7 × 9.5 cm)
Gift of Morris J. Pinto, 1976 (1976.351)
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
May 26, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Fables de Kalila et Dimna (détail)
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

 
 
May 23, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Crowned Buddha
Thailand, Lopburi, circa 1250-1300
Copper alloy
Gift of Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio (AC1994.232.1)
© LACMA

 
 
May 21, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Rank badge with two cranes and clouds for a civil official, 19th century
Artist in Korea, Rank badge with two cranes and clouds for a civil official, 19th century. Embroidered silk threads on silk damask. Gift of Gustavus Goward, 1899. E9785.
© Peabody Essex Museum

 
 
April 30, 2025 | Steven G. Alpert
 
 
 
April 29, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Vishnou
Art khmer, époque angkorienne, seconde moitié 11e siècle, Mébon occidental, Angkor, province de Siem Reap, Cambodge, bronze, H.123 cm, Musée national du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodge
© Thierry Ollivier

 
 
April 22, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Shield, Amhara, Ethiopia, Embossed buffalo, rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide, engraved silver plates and red leather lining, Musée Barbier-Mueller, photo Studio Ferrazzini Bouchet

 
 
April 18, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Fragment (Spain); silk; H x W: 51.4 x 32.7 cm (20 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.); Gift of John Pierpont Morgan; 1902-1-222
© Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum