Facebook Live Tour: Golden Kingdoms
BLOG POST: Beautiful Blades
See my new post about Golden Kingdoms for Now at The Met: Sharpening Ceremony and Ritual: The Beautiful Blades of Golden Kingdoms
REVIEW: Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya
I reviewed Oswaldo Chinchilla’s new book for caa.reviews!
REVIEW: Golden Kingdoms in WaPo
Post critic Sebastian Smee on Golden Kingdoms!
Donโt expect to see a more beautiful show than โGolden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americasโ 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. Itโs ravishing.
But itโs more than that. Itโs chewy. Itโs mind-bending. It has enough fresh scholarship behind it to make you rethink basic assumptions. And it has, at the showโs 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 inglรฉs y espaรฑol!
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.