I reviewed Oswaldo Chinchilla’s new book for caa.reviews!
REVIEW: Golden Kingdoms in WaPo
Post critic Sebastian Smee on Golden Kingdoms!
Don’t expect to see a more beautiful show than “Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas” anytime soon. The exhibition, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a fresh, transformative take on pre-Columbian art. It boasts more than 200 objects made from gleaming gold, green and blue jade, resplendent macaw feathers, turquoise, and coral-colored, scallop-shaped Spondylus shells, among other materials. It’s ravishing.
But it’s more than that. It’s chewy. It’s mind-bending. It has enough fresh scholarship behind it to make you rethink basic assumptions. And it has, at the show’s end, a small but concentrated dose of world-historical drama that will stop your heart.
LIVE: Golden Kingdoms Web site
A permanent web presence! En inglés y español!
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/golden-kingdoms
BLOG: New Gifts of Mesoamerican Art
Check out the new Met blog, Collection Insights!
PREVIEW: Golden Kingdoms
Now live at The Met.
Golden Kingdoms Reviewed in LA Times
Check out the review here.
CATALOGUE: Golden Kingdoms
Design for Eternity Reviewed by CAA
See a review of our exhibition catalogue for “Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas, over at CAA Reviews.
ESSAY: Ancient Maya Painted Ceramics
New Timeline Essay published here.