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Posted inOpinion

Austria Should Repatriate the Mexica Headdress

Avatar photo by Kayla Johnson August 17, 2021August 17, 2021

The headdress in Austria is the only one of its kind and it’s not only a work of art, but a representation of the identity and landscape of Mexico that was stripped from the nation by colonial forces.

Posted inArt

A Serpentine Example of Aztec Body Modification Slithers into The Met

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 17, 2016June 18, 2016

The Aztec rulers often expressed their power with body modification, such as labrets pierced through the lower lip.

Posted inBooks

Plumage of the Saints: Aztec Feather Art in the Age of Colonialism

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 2, 2016March 6, 2016

In a 16th-century triptych of the crucifixion at the Musée National de la Renaissance, north of Paris, Christ has wings. In fact the whole piece is made of feathers.

Posted inArt

Modeling Life, Death, and Eternity in the Ancient Americas

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 16, 2015November 22, 2015

Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace, one of the small-scale representations of a lost precolonial world in Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas.

Posted inBooks

The Pre-Columbian Origins of Mexico’s Modernist Architecture

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 31, 2015October 15, 2022

In his monograph Pyramid, published by Toluca Éditions, photographer Pablo López Luz explores the pre-Columbian influence on modernist architecture in Mexico.

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A Historic Manuscript on Aztec Life Is “Virtually Repatriated”

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 27, 2015November 22, 2017

One of the major textual resources on pre-Columbian Mexico is now online in a digital platform launched this month.

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Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts

by Laura C. Mallonee April 3, 2014April 8, 2014

What happens when a wide swath of history — previously only explored by white-gloved librarians and erudite historians — is made available to anyone with a solid internet connection? Thanks to the Pope, we’ll soon find out.

SITE Santa Fe Opens Bruce Nauman’s First Solo Exhibition in New Mexico
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SITE Santa Fe Opens Bruce Nauman’s First Solo Exhibition in New Mexico

His Mark features a collection of new and recent video installations, including never-before-shown self-portrait work and 3D video.

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