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Visitors encounter a room of shawabties, one of the many immersive displays in “Ancient Nubia Now.” Adopted from ancient Egyptian practices, shawabties filled the burial chambers of Nubian rulers, each a miniature of the king it served.

Unknown artists, shawabties, Napatan period, 690–568 BCE. Faience, travertine, magnesite, serpentine. Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition.

Image Courtesy of Caitlin Cunningham Photography.

 

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A visitor looks at Grace Hartigan’s painting Masquerade in “Women of Action,” one of the seven galleries in “Women Take the Floor.” In the mid-20th century, Hartigan made significant contributions to the formation and expansion of action painting, a movement typically credited to male artists.

Grace Hartigan, Masquerade (detail), 1954. Oil on canvas. Collection of Lizbeth and George Krupp. © Estate of Grace Hartigan.

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