Archive | May, 2022

With Help from Professor Leila Amineddoleh, Looted Roman bust, bought from Texas secondhand store for $34.99, will be returned to Germany

10 May

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/04/roman-bust-germany-goodwill-store-texas-restitution

https://www.artandiplawfirm.com/voluntary-return-of-marble-bust-to-germany-provides-model-for-restitution-of-artifacts-looted-in-wartime/

Professor Hopkins Lecture

9 May

Professor John Hopkins will speak about the contributive work of laborers in the Roman Forum and the effects their bodily presence and creative intelligence had on building systems and sacred images there. He is speaking as part of a conference on the Forum Romanum at Lund University on Friday at 7:30 AM Eastern, 1:30 PM Central European Time. For details on the conference, see the flyer and the link here.

College Night at The Met

2 May

http://mail.metmuseum.org/q/11o3Q34tuOhhhfgaV88vVQ3/wv



College Night: In America
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
6:30–9:30 pm
Free, though advance registration is requiredJoin us for a night of dancing, fashion, and art making to celebrate student fashion designers and The Costume Institute exhibitions In America: A Lexicon of Fashion and In America: An Anthology of Fashion.

This event is open to all college and graduate students.

Register now! → The Met
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Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.

The Design Competition is made possible by the Doris & Stanley Tananbaum Foundation in memory of Doris Tananbaum.

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Image: Ball gown, Marguery Bolhagen (American, 1920–2021), ca. 1961; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 1966 (2009.300.2556a, b). The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor, ca. 1850, Gift of Sirio D. Molteni and Rita M. Pooler, 1965 (Inst.65.4). Photo © Dario Calmese, 2021.