A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality are surreally entangled. By Holland Cotter Beautiful is complicated.

“While artist signatures are scarce on ancient art across the world before the 19th century, Maya sculptors and painters did sign their works, occasionally prominently, on beautifully carved ...

At its heart, it’s about ancient Maya concepts of divinity. On the one hand, it’s a survey show of Maya art and religion. On the other, it’s a sophisticated, exacting mix of disciplines.

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, from a local art dealer in 1988.

Art World The Hieroglyphics of the Ancient Maya Have a Lot to Tell Us About Art Today—and a New Lecture Series Will Explain How. Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer ...

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.