Word: pre-columbian
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...artifacts, ranging from palm-size jade carvings to a 10-ton, monumental stone head. For the next four months, visitors will be able to see treasures that have never before been permitted to leave Mexico. "It's amazing," says one of the show's curators, Peter David Joralemon of Pre-Columbian Art Research Associates in New York City. "The only major Olmec objects left in Mexico are the ones that are too fragile to travel...
...Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Minnesota Museum of American Art are both looking at the idea. Santa Barbara, with everything from dolls and toys to pre-Columbian artifacts in its collection, has grown for 50 years without a major vetting. "Museums can no longer survive without weeding out," says its curator, Robert Henning. Explains Jay Gates, director of the Dallas Museum of Art: "Acquisition dollars are harder to come by, and art prices remain high. It's one thing to be given the endowment dollars, but it's another to have to go get them. [Deaccessioning...
...archaeologists and workers located tombs that had been sealed off since their occupants were buried. He began what would stretch into years of patiently peeling away layers of debris and removing the delicate objects of metal, shell and stone that gradually unraveled the mysteries surrounding the lost culture. Pre-Columbian expert Christopher Donnan, of the University of California, Los Angeles, joined the project: photographs of tomb objects were made and sent for comparative analysis to UCLA's Fowler Museum, which has more than 135,000 pictures of Moche artifacts in its archives...
...PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AND THE POST-COLUMBIAN WORLD, by Barbara Braun (Abrams; $75). African sculpture and its influence on modern art is well documented. Less so is the effect of ancient American design on 19th and 20th century painters, sculptors and architects. Braun traces the aesthetic roots of artists such as sculptor Henry Moore, painter Paul Klee and architect Frank Lloyd Wright back to the Maya, Aztec and pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru...
...Zipa," a stand boasting a collection of Pre-Columbian and Native American jewelry, relies "more on local residents and visitors than on students," according to operator Olga Lopara...