Upcoming Exhibitions

Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven:
Nahua Art and Ritual of Southern Mexico
January 27 – April 28, 2007

The exhibition will present the results of thirty years of interdisciplinary investigation on ancient Mexican screenfold books and the ritual divinatory practices of the Nahua peoples of southern Mexico from a.d. 1300–1500.  Outstanding art objects in ceramic from the museum’s collection, including a number of new acquisitions, will be featured. Organized by John M. D. Pohl, the Peter Jay Sharp Curator and Lecturer in the Art of the Ancient Americas at the museum, the exhibition combines the perspectives of art history, ethnohistory, and archaeology, and represents a groundbreaking examination of the key role played by the Maquiltonaleque (Five Souls), spirit beings believed to guide religious practitioners through their use of the ancient books to foretell future events, cure disease, control weather, determine royal marriages, and predict times for making war.

Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church
January 27 – June 10, 2007

Pop Art
March 24 – August 12, 2007