“Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now,” an exhibition recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores 150 years of that creative endeavor, from a painting ...

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past? By Jason Farago We call it Egypt; the Greeks ...

In the foyer of the Met’s second-floor gallery, Cleopatra’s Chair sits empty, beckoning. This throne, constructed by legendary sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud, is a remnant of a sustained ...

It explores the tradition of Black musicians — Beyoncé ... It said it was seeking to explain “why ancient Egypt is important to these artists and musicians and from which cultural and ...

The topic of the imagination of ancient Egypt in music, predominantly from the African diaspora, Black artists in different styles, jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop, had long been ignored.” With the ...

Until just recently, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... ocher and black a grim mourning scene. Now that object has been shunted off to one side, and our first view of ancient Greece ...

Guadalupe Romero Villanueva Ancient art in a Patagonian cave is several ... served the purpose of preserving cultural knowledge. The black, comb-like motif appeared frequently on the cave's ...