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This 3,000-year-old Olmec face was made to last. What can we learn from it?

"Being able to recognize a face is one of those fundamental survival skills."


Curator Joanne Pillsbury on an Olmec mask.

Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.


Contributors

Joanne Pillsbury
Andrall E. Pearson Curator, The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Photography by Oi-Cheong Lee


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Face, Olmec artist(s), Jadeite, Olmec
Olmec artist(s)
900–400 BCE