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Inside Story Tour
1:00 PM
Take a stroll through the galleries accompanied by a CMA docent and learn more about our collection and special exhibitions. Learning to Look and The Inside Story are two, new ways of exploring the Museum on a tour. Interested in hearing anecdotes and inside stories about works of art, artists, and the Museum? Look for The Inside Story on our calendar. Want to learn how to look at and interpret a work of art? Join us for Learning to Look tours that delve into a few works of art. No registration requested. Today's Inside Story tour: Visitor's Choice.
Roaming Docents
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Initiate a conversation with one of CMA's trained guides. Get your questions answered, chat about a work of art, or be privy to an inside story.
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel: Insights and Interpretations Cunningham Lecture and Reception
3:00 PM
Christopher Lightfoot, Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers insights on the Lod Mosaic. A specialist on the subject of ancient glass and numismatics, Dr. Lightfoot oversaw the day-to-day management of the reinstallation of the New Greek and Roman Galleries that opened in April 2007. Dr. Lightfoot was educated at the University of Oxford, he earned his doctoral degree in Ancient History with a dissertation about the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. He was also the curator for the Lod Mosaic special exhibition at the Met in 2010–2011 and has written about the mosaic in the January/February 2011 issue of Minerva. This free program is made possible by Dr. Charles Cunningham who was a longtime friend and generous supporter of the Museum. To reserve your seat, please call 614.629.0359.
