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Headshot of Leonard A. Lauder
In Memoriam: Leonard A. Lauder
The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art commemorates its visionary founder, Leonard A. Lauder, a generous philanthropist, patron of the arts, and humanist.
September 8
A flying panel metate (tablelike object of stone) with five felines worked into the legs on the metate's underside
Arte escultórico en piedra de Costa Rica
Los especialistas en piedra de Costa Rica demostraron una gran habilidad en la creación de obras de piedra como metates, figuras zoomorfas y antropomorfas y esferas.
Francisco Corrales Ulloa
September 3
Double Crocodile Pendant, Gold, shell, Cocle (Macaracas)
El oro en los cacicazgos de la antigua Panamá
Los primeros indicios de metalurgia hallados en el istmo de Panamá se remontan a los siglos II y III e.c.
Orlando Hernández Ying
August 22
Aerial view of a stone wall structure
Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe’s architectural layout and material culture have been key in understanding the site’s settlement history and economic, social, and political organization.
Tawanda Mukwende
May 27
Double Crocodile Pendant, Gold, shell, Cocle (Macaracas)
Gold in the Chiefdoms of Ancient Panama
The earliest evidence of metallurgy found in the Isthmus of Panama can be dated between the second and third centuries CE.
Orlando Hernández Ying
May 27
A flying panel metate (tablelike object of stone) with five felines worked into the legs on the metate's underside
Stone Sculptural Art in Costa Rica
Ancient artists of Costa Rica demonstrated great artistic skill in creating stone works such as metates, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures, and spheres.
Francisco Corrales Ulloa
May 21
Bare-chested female ceramic figure wearing a multistrand necklace with a sizable pendant and a decorated head cover.
Representations of Power in Ancient Coastal Ecuador
Artistic representations of power emerged from multiple cultural traditions in coastal Ecuador during the period between 300 BCE and 600 CE.
Florencio Delgado Espinoza
May 7
Red and white double-chambered ceramic bottle with a seated human figure holding a Spondylus shell
Wari Imperial Art
The artistic expressions of the Wari and Tiwanaku societies dominated the Central Andes for nearly five hundred years (600–1000 CE).
José Ochatoma Paravicino
March 6
Red and white double-chambered ceramic bottle with a seated human figure holding a Spondylus shell
El arte imperial wari
Tanto la sociedad wari como la tiwanaku prepararon el terreno para imperios andinos posteriores.
José Ochatoma Paravicino
March 6
Dark smooth bannerstone carved in the shape of a double-bitted axe
Bannerstones: Ancient Indigenous Stone Carvings, North America (6000–1000 BCE)
Bannerstones were made by nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples in the eastern half of North America between 6000 and 1000 BCE during the Archaic period.
Anna Blume
February 18