Friday, September 14: Curator Joanne Pillsbury Reflects on “Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient America”

Join the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures for the talk, Imperial Histories: Reflections on Golden Kingdoms, cosponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History. 

Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of the Ancient Americas at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will offer a behind-the-scenes view of the creation and reception of the exhibition “Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas,” a major exhibition shown at the Metropolitan Museum and the Getty Museum in 2017-2018.

Image: Octopus Frontlet, A.D. 300–600. Moche; Peru, La Mina. Gold, chrysocolla, shells, 11 x 17 in. (27.9 x 43.1 cm). Museo de la Nación, MN–14602, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, Lima