On View: Three-Headed Figure (Sakimatwemtwe)
This Lega figure is known as sakimatwemtwe, or “the man with many heads.” It would have been owned by a man who belonged to Kind...
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Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.
On View: Long Prayer Stick
The ikupasuy is a sacred object used for prayer. The worshipper dips the sharper end into rice wine (sake) or millet beer, and then sprinkle...
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Brooklyn Museum Posse:Exploring the collection
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Antonio González Velázquez – Spanish, 1723-1794