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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”

Chamá Style at The Met

New blog, Creativity on the Maya Periphery: A Chamá-Style Vase at The Met, now up at Now at the Met.

Aztec Labret: MetCollects

MetCollects features Aztec Labret, Serpent with Articulated Tongue.

#MetTimeline: Ancient Maya Sculpture

Now live on the Timeline of Art History!

Do Gods Sleep? Maya Deity Houses at Copán

New Design for Eternity blog, up at Now at the Met.

Decoding a Maya Rain God Sculpture from Chichen Itza

New blog up! Now at the Met.

Design for Eternity in WSJ

Check out the review of the Metropolitan Museum exhibition “Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas” in the Wall Street Journal.

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.