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‘Chroma’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

See Greek and Roman sculpture like never before in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show ‘Chroma,’ which presents reconstructions of ancient sculpture in vivid tones based on traces of original pigment.  Using tools like multispectral photography, German professor Dr V. Brinkmann and Dr U. Koch-Brinkmann of the Liebieghaus sculpture collection in Frankfurt, Germany reveal how ancient Mediterranean cultures favored vibrant color.  Join me on a Met Museum highlights tour to see these works and more.  (On view through March 26th, 2023).

Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Reconstruction of a marble statue of a woman wrapping herself in a mantle (so-called Small Herculaneum Woman). Marble stucco on plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil, 2019.

Michael Riedel at David Zwirner Gallery

David Zwirner Gallery’s normally pristine white walls look as though they’ve been damaged by scraping; a closer look reveals that black markings are text fragments, printed onto posters that cover the walls of Michael Riedel’s latest solo show. Known for recycling text and image from his previous shows, Riedel takes the metaphor a step further by picturing animated dinosaur skeletons, creatures whose lives have been extended, in a sense, by being exhumed and put into the public realm again. (In Chelsea through March 25th).

Michael Riedel, Untitled (Art Material_Oviraptor), archival inkjet print mounted to aluminum honeycomb, vinyl, 99 1/8 x 113 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed), 2015.
Michael Riedel, Untitled (Art Material_Oviraptor), archival inkjet print mounted to aluminum honeycomb, vinyl, 99 1/8 x 113 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed), 2015.