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Object History and Significance: The Cameo of Jupiter (Chartres)
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The current exhibition Devotion and Decadence features many remarkable archaeological finds, but some masterpieces of ancient art were consistently saved as luxury objects from the time of their creation. Cameos, for example, were frequently preserved and passed through different collections from the ancient world to the present. In the case of the Cameo of Jupiter (The Cameo of Chartres), its fourteenth-century mount tells us something about the object’s history as well as its changing significance over time.No publisher2018/12/21 11:30:00 GMT-4News ItemExhibitions
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No publisher2021/02/16 16:05:00 GMT-4PageISAW's First Virtual Exhibition Coming Soon!
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We are pleased to announce that ISAW will be launching its first virtual exhibition this coming February, The Empire's Physician: Prosperity, Plague, and Healing in Ancient Rome. Presenting the life of the influential Roman doctor Galen (ca. 129–216/7 CE), this richly-illustrated, interactive online exhibition will contextualize the doctor’s biography within the ancient medical landscape as well as within his broader historical situation. No publisher2020/10/21 16:30:00 GMT-4News ItemUpcoming Exhibition: The Empire’s Physician: Prosperity, Plague, and Healing in Ancient Rome
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No publisher2020/10/19 15:55:00 GMT-4PageOpening Next Month! "Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes"
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Opening March 6th, "Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballet Russes" explores both the role of dance in ancient culture and the influence of antiquity on the modernist reinventions of the Ballets Russes.
No publisher2019/02/14 15:55:00 GMT-4News Item"Devotion and Decadence" Opens Tomorrow, October 17th!
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For its presentation at ISAW, the Berthouville Treasure will be joined by approximately seventy-five other luxury objects from the collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France in the exhibition "Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury from the Bibliothèque nationale de France."No publisher2018/10/16 11:30:00 GMT-4News ItemFall Exhibition Opens October 17th!
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Opening this fall, "Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury" will feature objects from the Berthouville Treasure, the largest and best-preserved hoard of silver from the ancient world, along with other luxury objects from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.No publisher2018/06/26 11:20:00 GMT-4News ItemTales from the Alexander Romance in "Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past"
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"Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past" explores the transformation of Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE) with representations of the Persian and Turkish versions of the legendary account of Alexander the Great, or Iskandar, as he is known in the Islamic tradition. No publisher2018/04/24 16:10:00 GMT-4News Item"Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past" Now Open and in the Press!
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Just reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, "Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past" opened here at ISAW on February 14, 2018. This exhibition brings together an exceptional group of rare manuscripts that testify to the fertile relationship between medieval Islam and the classical world.No publisher2018/02/21 11:35:00 GMT-4News ItemExhibition Now Open: "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans"
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Open Wednesday-Sunday from 11am-6pm, with extended hours on Fridays until 8pm and a free guided tour at 6pm, ISAW's newest exhibition presents the dynamics between recovery and creation using a work of contemporary video art as a lens on the ancient past. No publisher2017/10/12 10:15:54 GMT-4News Item"...circle through New York" Brings Felix Gonzalez-Torres Sculpture to ISAW
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This month, ISAW will host a piece from the Guggenheim's permanent collection, an installation by Cuban-born American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, as a part of the Guggenheim's Social Practice Art Initiative.No publisher2017/07/10 10:58:27 GMT-4News Item". . . circle through New York" Continues. ISAW and St. Philip’s Church Invite You in a Call to Action!
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For the month of June, we are partnering with St. Philip's Church in Harlem to answer their call to action against the "fear, ignorance, greed, and willful discrimination that hurt many in our midst."No publisher2017/06/21 09:45:00 GMT-4News Item. . . circle through New York continues. ISAW Welcomes Pinkie!
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The Guggenheim's Social Practice Art Initiative, "...circle through New York" continues through the summer months. In May, we hosted salmon-crested cockatoo Pinkie from Pet Resources in the Bronx and held two "Parrots in Antiquity" talks with Assistant Research Scholar Patrick Burns.No publisher2017/05/25 13:07:53 GMT-4News Item. . . circle through New York Begins! ISAW Welcomed JUS Broadcasting and the Guggenheim Museum Sang a Hurrian Hymn
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Beginning in March, we started participating in a Social Practice Art initiative, established by the Guggenheim and commissioned by Pittsburgh-based artists Jon Rubin and Lenka Clayton. Read more about our recent collaborations with JUS Broadcasting and the Guggenheim Museum.
No publisher2017/04/18 09:40:00 GMT-4News Item"...circle through New York:" ISAW to Participate in a New Social Practice Art collaboration
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Beginning this March, ISAW will participate in a Social Practice Art initiative, established by the Guggenheim and commissioned by Pittsburgh-based artists Jon Rubin and Lenka Clayton.No publisher2017/02/03 14:03:46 GMT-4News Item