Hispanic Heritage Month: Quiriguá
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th to October 15th) has started. I would like to kick off the month-long celebration with one of the most spectacular cultures of Mesoamerica, the Maya. A ...
Read MoreNational Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th to October 15th) has started. I would like to kick off the month-long celebration with one of the most spectacular cultures of Mesoamerica, the Maya. A ...
Read MoreWhen you think of ancient cultures that are tip-top interesting, do your minds usually wander to the civilizations of the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome? My idea of tip-top are the indigen ...
Read MoreAs a Westerner (and art historian my entire adult life), I have always felt extremely weary of the word “classicism.” One reason I am weary of the word is that it is used as a blanket term ...
Read MoreAs winter approaches, everyone dreams of vacations again. As an art historian, I have many, many places around the world that I would dearly love to visit, but know that I probably never will. My year ...
Read MoreWe in the Western Hemisphere don’t have to look very far to find a civilization that rivals that of ancient Greece and Rome. The Maya in Central America thrived for almost 3000 years in Mexico, ...
Read MoreI find it very interesting (in my geeky, art historian way) to contrast the art of cultures from all over the non-Western world and compare them to the “epitome” of aesthetics in the West, ...
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