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A Museum Object from Antiquity Reexamined – Head of a Ruler

General Society Library 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY, United States

Friends of AIA-NYS invite you to a special lecture! The Metropolitan Museum Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art cares for approximately 7,000 works from 8th Century B.C. to 7th Century A.D. The objects come from an area that today comprises Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean coast, Yemen, and Central Asia. The Met’s Jean-François […]

The Becoming of Mesoamerican Pigments: The Olmec presented by Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez (CU Boulder)

CU Museum of Natural History Broadway, Boulder, CO, United States

This lecture presents a new study of pigments and coloring materials that offers a unique window into the development of indigenous science, ideology, and learning processes to innovate knowledge. The color palettes of Juxtlahuaca, Cauadzidziqui and Oxtotitlan caves, all located in the state Guerrero, Mexico, will be compared and evaluated and I will propose how […]