The Met Gets a Paint Job

It is not easy to say what ‘Chroma’ is, other than that it might be the future, and it transpires in part on your phone.

Via Metropolitan Museum of Art
‘Reconstruction of a Marble Archer,’ Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. Via Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is not easy to say what “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color” is, other than that it might be the future, and it transpires in part on your phone. The show is more a concept than a catalog, with one foot in Alternative Reality and the other on Fifth Avenue. Nevertheless, it gives color to the past, which could yet prove to be an important task for a visually addled present. 

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