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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series: Joanne Pillsbury, the Andrall E. Pearson Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Nelson Rockefeller and the Politics of Art

Heather Mickley
Heather Mickley • February 17, 2025
Event date March 5, 2025 8:30AM
Event location Toby's Feed Barn (Art Gallery) 11250 California 1
94956 CA
United States

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
In-Person Only / Free / All Are Welcome
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Joanne Pillsbury, the Andrall E. Pearson Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Nelson Rockefeller and the Politics of Art.

Joanne Pillsbury (PhD, Columbia University) is a specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas and was previously associate director of the Getty Research Institute and director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. She has published widely, including Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530–1900; the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award recipients Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2012) and Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art (2022); and Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas (2012), which was awarded the Association for Latin American Art Book Award. Her 2017 exhibition catalogue, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas (prepared with Timothy Potts and Kim Richter), won a PROSE Award for Excellence. A podcast related to this project is available here.

 

Nelson A. Rockefeller and Frida Kahlo at Tizapán, home of the artists Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias, outside of Mexico City, 1943. Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center.
Nelson A. Rockefeller and Frida Kahlo at Tizapán, home of the artists Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias, outside of Mexico City, 1943. Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center.

 

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