#Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Schedule of Spring and Summer 2018 Exhibitions

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the schedule of its upcoming spring and summer seasons. Highlights of the upcoming 2018 exhibition season are: Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism Exhibition Dates: January 17–July 15, 2018 Exhibition Location: Gallery 851 William Wegman, Before/On/After (detail), 1972. Gelatin silver prints. The Metropolitan Museum of Art,…

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Exhibition Overview

This landmark exhibition of luxury arts of the Incas, the Aztecs, and their predecessors will trace the emergence and florescence of goldworking in the ancient Americas, from its earliest appearance in the Andes to its later developments farther north in Central America and Mexico. In the ancient Americas, metalworking developed in the context of ritual and regalia, rather than for tools, weapons, or currency. Golden Kingdoms will reveal the distinctive ways ancient Americans used not only metals, but also jade, shell, and feathers—materials often considered more valuable than gold. Bringing together newly discovered archaeological finds and masterpieces from major museums in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, this exhibition will cast new light on these ancient civilizations and their place within world history.

Golden Kingdoms will focus on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation, moments of exceptional achievement in the arts—to explore how materials were selected and transformed, imbued with meaning, and deployed in the most important rituals of their time. This unprecedented exhibition will feature more than 300 works from 53 lenders in 12 countries.

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Accompanied by a catalogue and an Audio Guide.

The exhibition is made possible in part by

Additional support is provided by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Alice Cary Brown and W.L. Lyons Brown, the Estate of Brooke Astor, the Lacovara Family Endowment Fund, William R. Rhodes, and The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation.

The exhibition is co-organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Research Institute.

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Lord of Sipan's jewels exhibited in the U.S.

Lord of Sipan’s jewels exhibited in the U.S.

Gold and silver jewels of Lord of Sipan, Old Lord of Sipan, and Chornancap priestess —belonging to Moche and Lambayeque cultures— are exhibited at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Big Apple.

Such display is part of an impressive international exhibition titled Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas.

It must be noted organizers took four years to gather some…

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Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is upon us! 

Over 70 exhibitions across Southern California explore Latin American and Latino/a art in dialogue with Los Angeles.

Four on view at the Getty Center:

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas:  This major international loan exhibition featuring more than 300 masterpieces, traces the development of luxury arts in the Americas from about 1000 BC to the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Recent investigation into the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions under which such works were produced and circulated has led to new ways of thinking about materials, luxury, and the visual arts from a global perspective.

Making Art Concrete:  Combining art historical and scientific analysis, experts from the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Research Institute have collaborated with the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros to examine the formal strategies and material choices of avant-garde painters and sculptors associated with the Concrete art movement in Argentina and Brazil. These works of geometric abstraction, created between 1946 and 1962, are presented alongside information on the way artists pioneered new techniques and materials.

The Metropolis in Latin America: Focusing on six capitals—Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago de Chile—this show presents the colonial city as a terrain shaped by Iberian urban regulations, and the republican city as an arena of negotiation of previously imposed and newly imported models, which were later challenged by waves of indigenous revivals. 

Photography in Argentina: Contradiction and Continuity Comprising three hundred works by sixty artists, this exhibition examines crucial periods and aesthetic movements in which photography had a critical role, producing—and, at times, dismantling—national constructions, utopian visions, and avant-garde artistic trends in Argentina.

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Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas is at the Getty Center through January 28, 2018.

Golden Kingdoms, a major international loan exhibition featuring more than 300 masterpieces, traces the development of luxury arts in the Americas from about 1000 BC to the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Recent investigation into the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions under which such works were produced and circulated has led to new ways of thinking about materials, luxury, and the visual arts from a global perspective.

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@The MET in NY, “Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas”!

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These are all from The Met’s recent exhibit,  Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas:

This landmark exhibition of luxury arts of the Incas, the Aztecs, and their predecessors traces the emergence and florescence of goldworking in the ancient Americas, from its earliest appearance in the Andes to its later developments farther north in Central America and Mexico. In the ancient Americas, metalworking developed in the context of ritual and regalia, rather than for tools, weapons, or currency. Golden Kingdoms reveals the distinctive ways ancient Americans used not only metals, but also jade, shell, and feathers—materials often considered more valuable than gold. Bringing together newly discovered archaeological finds and masterpieces from major museums in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, this exhibition casts new light on these ancient civilizations and their place within world history.

Golden Kingdoms focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation, moments of exceptional achievement in the arts—to explore how materials were selected and transformed, imbued with meaning, and deployed in the most important rituals of their time. This unprecedented exhibition features more than three hundred works from fifty-two lenders in twelve countries.

Detail work.

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“The Met — Here is the treasure of gods and kings. Here is the Met... Golden Kingdoms. Luxury & Legacy in The Ancient Americas.” The concepts of luxury and ritualistic artefacts are wildly incongruous. Bravo, tossers. Also they had empires, by definition, not kingdoms. Fucking dimwitted twats. — The Ghost Train, NVC.

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Golden Kingdoms: Luxury & Legacy in the Ancient Americas at The Met through May 28 #ArtTuesday

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury & Legacy in the Ancient Americas at The Met through May 28 #ArtTuesday

https://players.brightcove.net/911432378001/SkBUku4V_default/index.html?videoId=5713591556001 Just over a month left to checkout this exhibition at The Met: This landmark exhibition of luxury arts of the Incas, the Aztecs, and their predecessors traces the emergence and florescence of goldworking in the ancient Americas, from its earliest appearance in the Andes to its later developments farther…

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Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas (at Getty Museum)

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Our perceptions of luxury are today defined by brands like Louis Vuitton, Lexus and Louboutin. But archaeological evidence shows that humankind's obsession with luxury objects stretches right back to the earliest civilizations, predating the invention of money itself.

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The Rolex of the ancient world? How our ancestors defined luxury

The Rolex of the ancient world? How our ancestors defined luxury

ur perceptions of luxury are today defined by brands like Louis Vuitton, Lexus and Louboutin. But archaeological evidence shows that humankind’s obsession with luxury objects stretches right back to the earliest civilizations, predating the invention of money itself. A new exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, “Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas,” is dedicated to…

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How do you wear Pre-Columbian nose, ear, and lip ornaments? What are the artistic connections between the cultures of the ancient Americas? What material did the Incas consider to be more precious than gold?

We’re calling for questions from you! 

Kim Richter from the Getty Research Institute and Joanne Pillsbury from the Met Museum, the curators of Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, and Emma Turner-Trujillo, the project’s research assistant, are going to answer questions on The Getty’s Instagram. Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas explores the development of luxury arts from 1200 BC to the beginnings of European colonization in the sixteenth century. Made of precious metals and other substances esteemed for their color and luminescence, these works were imbued with sacred power by the people who created and used them.

In the ancient Americas, metals were employed primarily to create objects for ritual and regalia rather than for tools, weapons, or currency. The use of gold, transformed into objects for gods and rulers, provides the central narrative and trajectory of the exhibition, from Peru in the south to Mexico in the north. 

However, other materials were often deemed far more valuable. Jade, rather than gold, was the most precious substance to the Olmecs and the Maya; and the Incas and their predecessors prized feathers and textiles above all.

These works were often transported across great distances and handed down over generations, making them a primary means by which ideas were exchanged between regions and across time. Crucial bearers of meaning, luxury arts were especially susceptible to destruction and transformation; thus the works in the exhibition are rare testaments to the brilliance of ancient American artists.

Leave your questions in the comments on this Instagram post, and we’re looking forward to getting them answered!

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Golden Kingdoms: Luxury & Legacy in the Ancient Americas at The Met through May 28 #ArtTuesday

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury & Legacy in the Ancient Americas at The Met through May 28 #ArtTuesday

https://players.brightcove.net/911432378001/SkBUku4V_default/index.html?videoId=5713591556001 Just over a month left to checkout this exhibition at The Met: This landmark exhibition of luxury arts of the Incas, the Aztecs, and their predecessors traces the emergence and florescence of goldworking in the ancient Americas, from its earliest appearance in the Andes to its later developments farther…