Do we have a bias against colour in classical art?
Matt Wilson explores prejudices that have built up over centuries – leading to what has been labelled 'chromophobia', the subject of an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wilson finds out why we don't value colour, questioning a centuries-old misunderstanding. As Chroma's curator Sarah Lepinski tells him: "It's important that audiences come to understand the way they see ancient Greek and Roman sculpture isn't the way it was first created."
Exhibition Tour - Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (July 2022)
