{"id":639,"date":"2022-12-14T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-greatest-conspiracy-in-ancient-art-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:02:12","slug":"the-greatest-conspiracy-in-ancient-art-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-greatest-conspiracy-in-ancient-art-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The greatest conspiracy in ancient art \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/datlDXXJiwQ?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Do we have a bias against colour in classical art?<\/p>\n<p>Matt Wilson explores prejudices that have built up over centuries \u2013 leading to what has been labelled &#8216;chromophobia&#8217;, the subject of an exhibition at New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson finds out why we don&#8217;t value colour, questioning a centuries-old misunderstanding. As Chroma&#8217;s curator Sarah Lepinski tells him: &#8220;It&#8217;s important that audiences come to understand the way they see ancient Greek and Roman sculpture isn&#8217;t the way it was first created.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video by Paul Ivan Harris<br \/>\nProduced by Fiona Macdonald<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=datlDXXJiwQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we have a bias against colour in classical art? Matt Wilson explores prejudices that have built up over centuries \u2013 leading to what has been labelled &#8216;chromophobia&#8217;, the subject of an exhibition at New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wilson finds out why we don&#8217;t value colour, questioning a centuries-old misunderstanding. As Chroma&#8217;s curator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}