64 MAYANS Paris—One of the largest and richest early civilizations to have existed on the American continent, the Maya have certainly deserved a major exhibition in France. Les Mayas, Un Temps sans Fin (The Maya, a Time without End), which will be at the Musée du Quai Branly from October 7 2014–February 8, 2015, is unlikely to disappoint those who have been waiting for one. The exhibition will cover vast temporal and geographic areas and will be the subject of an in-depth article in this magazine after it opens. Many masterpieces will be featured among the 400 objects of Mayan art that will be displayed, including objects of daily life, funerary pieces, ceramics, sculptural and pictorial architectural elements, statuary, and sacred objects. Curator Mercedes de la Garza, a Mexican writer, historian, and academic, has put together an ambitious presentation that will strive to shed light on all aspects of this exceptionally long-lived culture. It will address how the Maya lived in their environment, the many facets of community life, conceptions of time and the cosmos, the construction and disposition of cities, the functions of the ruling elite, and the importance of sacred forces and rituals, to name just a few subjects. Also, from September 18–December 14, the museum’s Cabinet d’Arts Graphiques will host an installation devoted to photographs of Mayan sites, beginning with the early and seminal images by Désiré Charnay in the 1850s. COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Figurine. AD 600–900. Terracotta. “The Queen of Uxmal.” Yucatan, Mexico. AD 600–900. Female figure. Origin unknown. Terracotta. Seated figure. Jaina, Campeche, Mexico. AD 600–900. Terracotta. All images © Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico. Photos: Ignacio Guevara.
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