“Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color,” which ran at The Met from the summer of 2022 to the spring of 2023, explored the remnants of polychromy (the Greek word for “many colors”) on ancient artworks from the museum’s collection and beyond and highlighted the efforts of classical archaeologists Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, who have spent more than four decades reconstructing Greco-Roman painted artworks. The recent publication of “Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today” provides an overview and analysis of this epic exhibition and represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy. Read Sarah E. Bond’s full review through the link in bio. . . . 1 - Remnants of paint left on the pediment of the so-called “Alexander Sarcophagus” (Lebanon, Sidon, c. 320 BCE), marble, now at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (Image via Wikimedia) 4 - Vinzenz Brinkmann, Polychromatic reconstructio...