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...Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico, is on view at New York City's American Museum of Natural History. Next month it will move on to four other U.S. cities. A less ambitious but highly illuminating show, "Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya Treasures from the Sacred Well at Chichen Itza," drew crowds at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. It will move on to the Oakland Museum in California in the autumn and is scheduled to continue on the road in U.S. museums during the next two years...
...counterpoise to these exquisitely delicate objects is the 1,000-year-old, 1,200-lb. limestone Chacmool, the ceremonial figure that is the very emblem of Maya civilization in its later phases. Found at the most celebrated of all Maya sites, Chichen Itza in Yucatan, the semireclining statue is a splendid example of the Chacmools found guarding the entrances of temples. Typically, the male figure leans back on his elbows, pulls up his knees and turns a forbidding gaze on intruders at the sacred gates. A flat plate poised on his belly is believed to have been a receptacle...
...middle of a vast and desolate plain in Mexico, by the side of the long road stretching from Merida to Chichen Itza, stands a lonely, dead tree. Day and night, perched in the dried-out branches, are half a dozen vultures, just waiting for something to happen. You see, Hoving, art collecting is primarily a waiting game. Most of the time, you have to let the play come to you. Face it, a lot of curators are really nothing but creatures of carrion, picking off the leavings of creative artists...
...largest ancient temple, built on the Nile for Amon-Ra about 1500 B.C., is aligned so the midwinter sunrise strikes the altar in the high room of the sun. More than a dozen Maya sites built around 500 B.C. mark the cycles of the sun, and Chichen Itza, like Stonehenge, clearly shows the extremes of lunar movement. On the banks of the Mississippi near St. Louis, observing posts at the largest city-temple complex built by Indian tribes in the U.S. (circa A.D. 800-1 550) chart the solstices and equinoxes. So far the only baffling exception is the hodgepodge...
...caught in the same interval between being born and dying." A feckless young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around a lot of picturesque locations - Yucatan, in this case. The antique splendors of Chichen Itza make the passions of Interval seem petty indeed, but so would a brisk round of Parcheesi...