A volcano explodes from a display case. Its dark clouds and tongues of flame are the first thing a visitor will see when passing the security desk into the exhibition hall inside. A display of Etruscan goblets, bowls, and pitchers is being spewed into the upper atmosphere by the Parthian demons exercising their subterranean mischief at the bottom of the window--violent fragmentation, shifting geological strata, rearrangement of cultural foundations.
