Intermediate Area – Page 4 – James A. Doyle, Ph.D.

REVIEW: Manufactured Light

I reviewed Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm for Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

Twitter Moment: Giving Thanks

While The Met was closed on Thanksgiving, I celebrated some of my favorite works by indigenous American artists: Giving thanks: Art of the Americas

The Search for Kings and Queens in Ancient Panama

I’ve got Panama on the brain for the opening of the Gardiner Museum iteration of “Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, Gold, and Ceramics in Ancient Panama.” My talk here. The exhibition here.

#AskACurator Day – Storify

I took over the @metmuseum account for an hour to answer questions! See the whole conversation here: https://storify.com/metmuseum/askacurator-with-james-doyle

Archival Treasure and Gold Masterpieces from Venado Beach, Panama

I found a great old excavation notebook from Venado Beach in our AAOA files. See more at Now at the Met.

The Gilded Road/El Camino Dorado

Latest addition to Now at the Met, chronicling my journey through Central and South America. Amazing museum and site visits, as seen through my tweets at the time!

A Stone Sphere at the Metropolitan

My recent blog post on Now at the Met.

Fond Farewell to DC; Dispatch from New York

Farewell to James Doyle — Dumbarton Oaks. I was kindly invited by Dumbarton Oaks to contribute to the newsletter to describe my bittersweet move away from DC and beginning a new life in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now I’ve embarked on new adventures in presenting Mesoamerican and Central American art toContinue reading “Fond Farewell to DC; Dispatch from New York”

Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks

…or, the catalog formerly known as the Intermediate Area Catalog. From January 12th to 19th, the Pre-Columbian Studies department held an objects-based workshop to initiate the production of the catalogue of Ancient Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Roundtable discussions, presentations, group object viewings, and individual analysis time shaped the descriptions of the collection andContinue reading “Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks”

Notes from the Cenote

While at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, we saw some very special materials made of metal related to our catalog efforts: the offerings in the Cenote of Sacrifice from Chichen Itza, recovered in the early 20th century (Lothrop 1952; see Coggins 1992). We spent quality time with gold disks, especially the meticulousContinue reading “Notes from the Cenote”