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Florencio Delgado Espinoza gazes at the seated elder statue in the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries.
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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
Two conservators working on preparing a Wari Feathered Panel for installation against a backdrop of checkered yellow and blue panels.
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Join scholar Carol Rodríguez and conservator Christine Giuntini in an exploration of the Wari Feathered Panels in the renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
October 3, 2025
Francisco Corrales Ulloa talking in front of a gold plaque in the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries
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Archaeologist Francisco Corrales Ulloa reflects on the use of animals as symbols in Precolumbian art and the ongoing importance of preserving cultural heritage.
September 16, 2025
Black-and-white headshot of Jeffrey Gibson in a circular frame against a yellow background.
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Join artist Jeffrey Gibson and curator Jane Panetta for a conversation about his suite of four figurative sculptures for The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade.
September 15, 2025
Visualization of Oceania from a top down hemispheric perspective
Sean Connelly's Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection.
Maggie Wander and Sean Connelly
August 20, 2025
The backs of Maia Nuku and Max Hollein as they look up at Bisj poles in the Arts of Oceania galleries
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Join curator Maia Nuku to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of Oceania galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Maia Nuku
July 24, 2025
Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal standing in front of a female sculpture in the Ancient Americas galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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Join curators Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal
July 17, 2025
Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez looks at a weaving in the Arts of the Ancient Americas textile gallery
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“For me, living and producing textiles goes along with your life, along with your age, along with your everyday activity, that's why it is a living art, it’s not a piece that's from the past.”
July 14, 2025
Map of Oceania
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This dynamic animated map visually traces the early migration of the ancestors of Papuan-speaking peoples and the later migrations of Austronesian-speaking voyagers.
May 28, 2025
Lintel relief with figure of a man outlined in gold
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Take a closer look at the details of a colorful relief panel from La Pasadita.
May 28, 2025