Taming the Desert: Resilience, Religion, and Ancestors in Ancient Peru

With Luis Muro Ynoñán

Friday, December 6, 2024
11:00 a.m. PT

Live streaming via Zoom

Luis A. Muro Ynoñán will discuss the exhibition Taming the Desert: Resilience, Religion, and Ancestors in Ancient Peru, which features Moche and Nasca ceramics and textiles from the collections of LACMA and the Fowler. The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Muro Ynoñán, UCLA Professor of Art History and Conservation of Material Culture Glenn Wharton, and Fowler Senior Curator Erica P. Jones about how this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to glimpse two parallel pre-Hispanic modes of artistic expression in dialogue with each other.

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This event is co-sponsored by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the division of Social Sciences.