Dallas, TX | “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art” at the Kimbell Art Museum with Jennifer Casler Price

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Join ArtTable at The Kimbell Art Museum for a guided tour of Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art led by Curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American Art, Jennifer Casler Price. 

An exhibition of nearly 100 rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries depicts episodes in the life cycle of the gods, from the moment of their birth to resplendent transformations as blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night. Created by masters of the Classic period (A.D. 250–900) in the spectacular royal cities in the tropical forests of what is now Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, these landmark works evoke a world in which the divine, human, and natural realms are interrelated and intertwined. Lenders include major museum collections in Europe, the United States, and Latin America, with many works on view for the first time in the U.S., including new discoveries from Palenque (Mexico) and El Zotz (Guatemala).

“Mind-blowing”– New York Magazine 

“Totally riveting”– The New York Times 

“A magnificent show”— The New Yorker

For more information on the exhibition click here.

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – $20
• Member Guests – $30
• Public -$35
• If you are a current Kimbell Museum member, please email programs@arttable org to book your registration

Thank you to Heather Reichstadt for initiating this program, and Louky Keijsers Koning for coordinating.

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Image credit: “Whistle with the Maize God Emerging from a Flower.” Maya, Mexico Late Classic period, 600–900 Ceramic with pigment, 8 1/8 x 2 in. (20.7 x 5.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979, 1979.206.728

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About the Curator:

During her tenure at the Kimbell, she has curated major exhibitions of Buddhist sculpture, Chinese antiquities and Imperial porcelain, Japanese ukiyo-e painting and Samurai armor, Egyptian antiquities, Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist painting, Mughal painting, African and Oceanic sculpture, Maya and Wari art, a retrospective on Louis Kahn, the architect of the original Kimbell building, and the couturier Cristobal Balenciaga. More recently, she organized: Queen Nefertari’s Egypt; Buddha, Shiva, Lotus, Dragon; and The Language of Beauty in African Art; and is currently preparing for a spring 2023 exhibition Lives of Gods: Divinity in Maya Art (co-organized with the MET). In 2012 she curated the Kimbell’s 40th Anniversary exhibition in the iconic Louis Kahn building and in 2013 she supervised the re-installation of her collections in the Renzo Piano Pavilion. She has made nearly thirty acquisitions covering the range of all the fields she curates. In addition to these duties, Jennifer contributes to publications, conducts docent training, lectures frequently to share her expertise, and has led patron tours to China, Japan, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Turkey, Cuba, Peru, New Zealand, Australia, Greece, and Croatia. Jennifer carried out a six-year term (2015 – 2020) as a Commissioner on the Fort Worth Public Art Commission, serving as Vice-Chair and Chair of the Commission during her tenure. She has been a member of AAMC (Association of Art Museum Curators) since 2001 and has served as Membership Committee Co-Chair, Advocacy Task Force co-Chair, Prize Committee member, and in 2020 participated in the Mentorship Program as a mentor to a junior curatorial colleague. She is a founding member and serves on the Steering Committee for the ACAA (American Curators of Asian Art). Jennifer lives in Fort Worth with her husband, Steven Price, and has a daughter Zoë, who is a sophomore at Emory Universit

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