The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the renovation and reopening of the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing with a special exhibition tour. Curators Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal, along with museum director Max Hollein and special guest Alejandro de Avila, led the event, highlighting new scholarship on the Mesoamerican ballgame, the roles of women of power, and Moche metalworking technology.
This reopening matters because it reintroduces a major collection of pre-1600 Latin American art with updated perspectives and recent archaeological findings, offering deeper insights into the exchange of materials and ideas across ancient civilizations. The renovated galleries aim to engage a new generation of visitors with the ancestral arts of the Americas, reflecting evolving scholarship and curatorial approaches.