Roko Rumora Discusses the 'Jarring' use of Polychromy in the New York Times

Roko Rumora Discusses the 'Jarring' use of Polychromy in the New York Times

August 17, 2022

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Groundbreaking or garish? Reconstruction of a marble funerary stele of Phrasikleia, 2010/2019, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times

Roko Rumora (PhD candidate) discusses the exhibition "Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color" at the Met and how he finds this evocation of polychromy in the exhibition "jarring." Roko is about to start his Graduate Curatorial Internship in the Antiquities Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa. You can read the full article here