In June this year, Classicist Sarah E. Bond wrote an article for Hyperallergic called “Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color” in which she discussed the ‘irrefutable, if unpopular, truth’ that ‘many of the statues, reliefs and sarcophagi created in the ancient Western world were in fact painted’. Bond aligned the unpopularity of … Continue reading How Glenn Ligon’s “Coloring” Exhibition Can Teach Us About Diversity in Ancient Times