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Remembering Ancient Pottery Traditions

Remembering Ancient Pottery Traditions

By Richard Zane Smith, Catherine Tammaro, and Craig Cipolla This summer Wyandot artists Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro visited the Royal Ontario Museum’s New World Archaeology collections. The purpose of their visit was to study a small sample of the ROM’s Wendat pottery collections

 Popular Motifs on Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana

Popular Motifs on Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana

Blog by Silvia Forni, Curator of African Arts and Culture The Fante are one of the many culturally and linguistically related groups known collectively as the Akan. They mostly live in the Central Region of Ghana, their territory extending along the coast and inland from Takoradi in the west, to

Artists of the Floating World, Part I

Written by Josiah Ariyama Supervised by Dr. Asato Ikeda   A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Print s, exhibited at the ROM from May until November, 2016 offers but a glimpse into the lives of Wakashu, or “young companions” living in Edo period Japan (1603-1868). The exhibition not

Artists of the Floating World, Part II

Written by Josiah Ariyama Supervised by Dr. Asato Ikeda   In the sunset years of his life and a hundred years before Perry, Suzuki Harunobu revolutionized the woodblock printing method, rendering previous methods obsolete. In Part II we look at nishiki-e, full-coloured prints from 1765 onward. 

What Is “Obscene”? And Who Decides? — Thought and Proposition by the Curator of "A Third Gender"

What Is “Obscene”? And Who Decides? — Thought and Proposition by the Curator of A Third Gender By Asato Ikeda     The Toronto Star ’s art critic Murray Whyte published a generous review of the show A Third Gender, calling it “a quiet landmark of an undeniable social shift.”

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Income Tax Reduction & Estate Tax Elimination

Join us for an exclusive virtual presentation ROM supporters are invited to attend an exclusive virtual presentation by financial expert Keith Thomson on how to save money while estate planning. You will learn: How to minimize or even eliminate taxes on your estate  How to change

Mystery of conical fossils solved, after 175 years

Mystery of conical fossils solved, after 175 years

My name is Joe Moysiuk, I am a 20-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Toronto enrolled in both the departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences. I am excited to announce that a research paper which I am lead author of, titled Hyoliths are Palaeozoic