450 Sutter Street is San Francisco’s monument to the Mayan Revival branch of Art Deco. Art Deco draws on a variety of sources including Art Nouveau, Cubism and the American Arts and Crafts Movement.

In many ways, this dress has become iconic: what we think of when we think of modern Mayan culture. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a growing number of Mayans from Guatemala, including local ...

What is most astonishing about the meander motif is that it is found in the architecture, sculpture and decorative arts ... Mayan carvings. Still, we most closely associate the linear geometric ...

Archaeologists working in Guatemala’s Petén jungle have discovered three ancient Mayan cities which modern eyes have never explored.

A relief in NOMA’s permanent collection, known by scholars as the “New Orleans Panel” represents the investiture of El Cayo’s principal authority known as sahal.

In this series, Lagniappe presents works from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The monumental head of Hun Hunapu, the god of corn, depicts one of ...

An ancient Mayan city followed a unique grid pattern, providing evidence of a powerful ruler, archaeologists have found. The city, which contains flat-topped pyramids, is being excavated at Nixtun ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has re-entered the controversial world of antiquities collecting by purchasing an ancient Roman marble portrait head and a glazed ceramic Mayan vessel. Both pieces ...