1era clausura de los cursos de lengua Maya

Virginia Fields has passed away‏

Virginia M. Fields, a leading scholar of early Mesoamerican art and archaeology who joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's curatorial staff in 1989 and devoted 22 years to making the museum a vital center of Latin American culture, passed away last wednesday night in Mexico City. She was 58 years old and suffered from diabetes complications, fight that she had since her youth.

Rest in Peace Virginia, and we desire strenght to her family.

Here is shared a Publication of his work:

The Iconographic Heritage of the
Maya Jester God
VIRGINIA M. FIELDS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Article BOMB Magazine 98/Winter 2007:
Virginia Fields: Maya Kingships

Also you can find her work in books as this one:

From dawn to dusk, National collections of Guatemala

The exhibition

Through the presentation of more than 160 exceptional objects belonging to the National Heritage of Guatemala – painted ceramics, steles, cut semiprecious stones, funerary objects, architectural remains, ornaments, etc. – the exhibition retraces the development of Maya civilization, its rise and decline after the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in 1524 C.E., with a chronological visit distinguishing the pre-classical, classical, and post-classical periods.

In order to present the public with a wider and more complex conception of Maya culture, the chosen objects come from three large regions of Guatemala: the highlands, the lowlands, and the Pacific coast. 

The exhibition also presents the discoveries made at multiple sites recently studied, such as El Mirador, at the head of a group of fi ve sites selected in 2002 by the Guatemalan government for nomination on the UNESCO World Heritage Site List. This latest research allows for the presentation to the visitor of a greater and more complex conception of Maya culture. The exhibition ends with a more contemporary section integrating multimedia and photographs, permitting the transmission of a broad view of ancient and contemporary Maya culture, and creating a link between past and present. 

From tuesday 6th june to sunday 2th october 2011

• East Mezzanine
• ticket collections 8, 5 € full price and 6 € reduced cost

Curator

• Juan-Carlos Melendez, director of the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Guatemala City

Scientific advisor

• Richard Hansen, archaeologist

XXV SIMPOSIO DE INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLÓGICAS EN GUATEMALA 2011

XXV SIMPOSIO DE INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLÓGICAS EN GUATEMALA
18 al 22 DE JULIO 2011
Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología

" LAS INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES DURANTE LOS ÚLTIMOS 25 AÑOS”

IV Convención Mundial de la Arqueología Maya 2011- " El Popol Vuh Visto a través del Arte Maya"

IV Convención Mundial de la Arqueología Maya Guatemala 2011

"El Popol Vuh Visto a través del Arte Maya"

del 17 al 19 de Junio