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Exploring the history of North American pastels
Megan Baker

Megan Baker is a Barra Foundation Fellow in Art and Material Culture at Penn’s McNeil Center.

(Image: Courtesy of McNeil Center for Early American Studies)

Exploring the history of North American pastels

McNeil Center Fellow Megan Baker’s dissertation research explores how the fine art medium tells a larger story of material transit across the Atlantic during a time of mounting political discord.

From The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

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A study of the ancient built environment
An ancient excavation site.

A view of the trench with the early Hellenistic mosaic.

(Image: Courtesy Teos Archaeological Project)

A study of the ancient built environment

A book of essays co-edited by history of art professor Mantha Zarmakoupi dives into a historic movement focused on recentering how we think about ecological concerns and the built environment.

From Omnia

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Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city
Two ancient mosaics recently unearthed.

Underneath layers of built-up dirt, Mantha Zarmakoupi and colleagues began to uncover the tiled edge of at least two mosaics, spread across separate rooms dating back to the 3rd century BCE. One that stood out depicted two fighting cupids (top), figures of Eros, the Greek god of love, whose imagery is related to Dionysos, the Greek god of wine and the patron deity of Teos, with a major temple in the city.

(Image: Courtesy of Teos Archaeological Project)

Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city

Classical archaeologist and architectural historian Mantha Zarmakoupi from the School of Arts & Sciences has spent the past four summers excavating the ruins of a city council building at the center of Teos in western Türkiye.

Marilyn Perkins

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The practice of art collection as a collaboration
People looking at the After Modernism exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

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The practice of art collection as a collaboration

As part of an undergraduate course, Penn faculty and students curated an Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of works from the Neumann family’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art.

Louisa Shepard