podcast

PODCAST: International Museum Directors on COVID-19 and Collaboration, Part 2

Museum directors from Shanghai and Berlin discuss the pandemic and their plans for the Ancient Worlds Now initiative.

A 15th century calendar page helps a curator make sense of the passing seasons.

Museum directors from Mumbai and Mexico City discuss the pandemic and their plans for the Ancient Worlds Now initiative.

Hear a curator travel to Brazil through the page of a book.

Listen as a curator explores the detailed story carved into an ancient gem.

Insights into the trade, migrations, and consolidations of power that transformed the premodern world.

Hear what a curator learned from seeing two heroes playing games on an ancient vase.

How one architect’s experience during a civil war shaped her approach to understanding architecture and urban space.

Listen to a curator consider photographs of LA's empty streets.

Understanding the cosmopolitan career of a master 17th-century artist through the writings of his contemporaries.

Hear a curator on monkeys, owls, and our upside-down world.

Three biographies written shortly after the artist’s death shine light on his tragically short career.