For one week in March, the Carlos Museum hosts Emory’s annual celebration of Tibetan culture.

Rival Cuts: Process & Technique in the Prints of Tom Hück & Albrecht Dürer brings together a selection of Hück’s woodcuts with works by Dürer, his printmaking hero.

Programs such as Carlos Reads, Artful Stories, and Get Wrapped up in Reading encourage visitors to turn to the page in order to better understand the cultures that created the works on view in the galleries.

This summer, in honor of the Carlos Museum’s centennial, a pop-up conservation experience in the John Howett Works on Paper Gallery will reveal one typically unseen aspect of museum work when visitors encoun

Artist Tom Hück’s admiration of Renaissance printmaker Albrecht Dürer is fierce—and indelible.

Emory University student Emily Farek investigated the ancient technique of gold granulation. She examined Carlos Museum objects and considered the chemistry that enables this process.

The Carlos Museum houses an excellent collection of carved gems from throughout the ancient world. In antiquity, the carved surface would have been pressed into either wax or clay to transfer the image.