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As Black History Month begins, and a new year still finds its footing, the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology is displaying works by black American artists — works that show us the world they lived in and, in some cases, the world they wanted to inhabit. Read the rest of the Columbia Tribune article here!

Listen up! Here is your chance to have a tour with our director, Dr. Alex Barker!

KBIA considers beauty at the Museum. Listen here!

Benton Kidd, Curator of Ancient Art, has just published “Masonry Style in Phoenicia: Reconstructing Sumptuous Mural Decoration from the ‘Late Hellenistic Stuccoed Building’ at Tel Anafa” in Beyond Iconography: Materials, Methods and Meaning in Ancient Surface Decoration, edited by Sarah Lepinski and Susanna McFadden, and published by the Archaeological Institute of America. 

Members of the world’s largest scholarly anthropological organization have elected the director of the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology as their new leader. Alex Barker, professor of archaeology, takes office as the vice president/president-elect of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) November 22. 

From our friends at the Center for the Future of Museums:

Emma, the Docent Dog is a unique addition to Columbia’s art world. As the official canine tour guide and ambassador for the University of Missouri's Museum of Art and Archaeology, Emma is a welcome sight to staff and visitors alike. 

A new chapter opens Sunday in the history of the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology.

Click through the PDF link to read the extended version of Mary L. Pixley's article on St. Catherine.