Happy Monday! Pompeii seems to yield a fascinating archaeological finding every other week, but a new PBS series intends to instead illuminate the scientific and often deeply moving behind-the-scenes process of their discovery. Scholar Sarah E. Bond reports on the first episode below.

In the news, students at the School of Visual Arts stage a performance action at the institution’s Manhattan gallery with poppies bearing the names of Gazan children killed by the Israeli military, while a report reveals that top art patrons pressured police to deploy to the student encampment at Columbia University.

Read on for more, including a guide to grantmaking geared toward artists of color and the transfixing woodblocks of Hiroshige Utagawa. Have a lovely week ahead.

— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor

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Hundreds attend a historic “counter-commencement” organized by Columbia University faculty in a repudiation of leadership’s decision to send police to arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators.

School of Visual Arts students and alumni staged a moving pro-Palestine demonstration at an exhibition opening in the school’s Flatiron gallery.

A dozen Parsons students are staging an alternative BFA show in Brooklyn amid Students for Justice in Palestine’s ongoing strike against the New School.

Private chats expose how art-world stakeholders sought to influence Mayor Eric Adams and Columbia University leadership to disband pro-Palestine student protests.

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