Exhibition Tour—Arts of the Ancient Americas
Celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
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Explore the significance of the work of artist Iba Ndiaye (1928–2008) with an esteemed group of international scholars.
February 28
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Florencio Delgado Espinoza takes a close look at a large La Tolita-Tumaco figurine depicting an elder, also called a cacique, in a seated position.
December 4, 2025
Celebrated composer Gabriela Ortiz sets her latest vocal work to a new Nahuatl poem to mark the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Emery Kerekes
November 6, 2025
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Essays
While this was an art made for burial, to be seen by the dead, these sculptures were at the epicenter of liturgical acts carried out by the living.
Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos
June 22
Aunque se trataba de un arte creado para enterrarse, para ser visto por los muertos, estas esculturas se situaban en el epicentro de los actos litúrgicos llevados a cabo por los vivos.
Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos
June 22
Mollusk shells were transported as precious materials throughout the Americas and used to craft objects for religious activity and personal adornment.
Adrián Velázquez Castro
February 24
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