Intentional or not, museums present viewers with a false color binary of the ancient world. One that, in its curation, perpetuates this skewed representation of antiquity.

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum in Lincoln Park, modeled on a French palace, always looks stately, and first-time visitors may assume it’s entirely formal and hush-hush inside, too. But ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is using modern technology to stir appreciation for ancient artistry — including an Athenian potter’s transformative “discovery” of red.

But as Laguna Art Museum’s new exhibit, “Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” demonstrates, black and white can contain multiplicities.

In museums and on archaeological sites, they embody an immaculate Greece with idealised forms. But make no mistake, this vision is far from historical reality: Greek statues were not white.

Some 15,000 recovered items are housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples—and now, ... Hundreds of Looted Ancient Artifacts Confiscated From the Black Market Are Now on Display in ...