Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur: A Conversation Across 2,000 Years

There is a particular kind of exuberance that comes from standing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s glass-walled hall featuring the Temple of Dendur, watching sunlight glint off off the 2,000-year old sandstone temple, while a spindly, headless bronze woman, cast in 1932, stands in the same place where a statue of a god used...