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BLOG: The Universe in a Maya Plate

With Stephen Houston I revisited the famed “Cosmic Plate” for Maya Decipherment.

Olmec Art on The Met’s Timeline

New Essay on Olmec Art at The Met’s Timeline of Art History.

Maya SmartHistory Videos

Check out three new videos about iconic Maya works in The Met’s collection, here.

ARTICLE: Codex-Style Vases at The Met

Now available for download on Publications page.

BLOG: Unrolling Maya Ceramic Canvases

New contribution up on Now at the Met.

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

Final Week: Design for Eternity!

Closing Sept. 18th! If you can’t make it to The Met, all exhibition works are online, and the catalogue is for sale below. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/design-for-eternity

TALK: Community, Royalty, and Artistry in Ancient Mexico

An upcoming lecture at Sewanee on September 26: This presentation will describe the role of artists in ancient Mexico from the earliest known societies to the sumptuous courtly arts of thriving city-states such as those of the Maya and the Aztec. Archaeologists see only traces of most ancient villages that were teeming with life across the landscapeContinue reading “TALK: Community, Royalty, and Artistry in Ancient Mexico”

BOOK: Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics – May 2017

My book will come out in 2017 with Cambridge University Press. Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics ISBN: 9781107145375 From the Press: Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landscape and to each other in the Preclassic period (c.2000Continue reading “BOOK: Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics – May 2017”