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Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.—The new exhibit “City Life: Experiencing the World of Teotihuacán” focuses on the daily life of ordinary people at Teotihuacán, and the historic, cultural, and social dynamics that shaped North America’s first urban civilization which long pre-dated the Aztec culture. The exhibit is enhanced by the loan of numerous original archaeological artifacts borrowed from major museums across the country. (480) 965-6224, http://asuma. asu.edu (Through May 15, 2014)
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visual feast of Acoma pottery brought together for the first time in the exhibit “Haakumé Dyuuni: The Painted Pottery of Acoma Pueblo.” The exhibit features fine examples of historic ceramics, as well as unique dyuuni (large, globular, highly burnished pots with small openings, short necks, and shallow shoulders) created during the last century. Located within the 40,000-square-foot Sky City Cultural Center, the Haak’u Museum showcases the culture, history, traditional customs, and artwork of the Acoma Pueblo Indians. (505) 552-7861, http://museum.acomaskycity.org (Through August 31, 2014)
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Tulane University, New Orleans, La.— “Faces of the Maya: Profiles in Continuity and Resistance,” the inaugural exhibit of the recently renovated Middle American Research Institute (MARI), celebrates the development of the Maya civilization from its beginnings in 1000 B.C. to the present. Displaying objects from MARI’s collection that have never before been on public display, the exhibit attempts to dispel erroneous notions of the Maya civilization that have recently gained currency due to the 2012 end of the world myth. This is MARI’s first new exhibit in over 50 years. (504) 865-5110, http://mari.tulane.edu/ exhibits.html (Ongoing)
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Acoma Sky City, N.M.—Experience the Pueblo Indian living tradition through a
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Washington, D.C.—Dumbarton Oaks celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of PreColmbian Art with select works on loan from U.S. and international museums, brought together in the exhibit “50 Years of Pre-Columbian Art.” Between 1912 and his death in 1962, founding museum donor Robert Bliss acquired works of art from some 30 ancient American cultures, many of them theretofore unstudied. A gilded Mixtec atlatl, a painted Maya figurine, ancient glyphs, and delicate Andean mosaics showcase the heights of ancient American artistic achievement and highlight recent advances in object research. Objects loaned from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum recall a tradition of institutional ties originally cultivated by Bliss himself, who consulted regularly with the museum’s curators and conservators. After five decades, his PreColumbian collection continues to incite scholarly inquiry, reveal ancient craftsmanship, and delight the eye of the viewer. (202) 339-6960, www.doaks.org/museum (Through January 5, 2014)
Autry National Center
Mount Washington Campus, Los Angeles, Calif.—Featuring more than 100 rare ceramic pieces from the Autry’s Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, “Four Centuries of Pueblo Pottery” traces the dramatic changes that transformed the Pueblo pottery tradition in the era following 16th-century Spanish colonization to the present. Organized by Pueblo language groups, the show includes pieces by such well-known potters as Maria and Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Nampeyo (Hopi) and her descendants, Juan Cruz Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo) and Tonita Peña Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Gladys Paquin (Laguna Pueblo), and many others. (323) 667-2000, www.theautry.org/ exhibitions (Ongoing)
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