Maya Burial Urns

We visited Boston's marvelous Museum of Fine Arts today. These large burial urns are a highlight of the new and stunning display of Art of the Ancient Americas. The urns are from the K'iché Maya (AD 650-850, in Guatemala). They held the remains of high-ranking individuals and were buried or place where their descendents could make offerings to them. This is part of the new Americas Wing, which we visited for the first time nearly two years ago.

Two special exhibitions at the museum stood out: l) Portrait and fashion photographs by Mario Testino--often incredibly vivid, lavish and "irreverent" (as the museum's blurb rather mildly puts it). Every imaginable celebrity, especially ladies, seem to have found their way in front of his camera. 2) "History Repeating" by Ori Gerscht--works in various media which provide a "conduit between the past and the present" (see the link for more)--it was fascinating.