Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous publications, including Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas (2015) and Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2012), recipient of the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award. Her 2012 volume, Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas, was honored with the Association for Latin American Art Book Award, and her exhibition catalogue Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas (2017) was winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Excellence. She was previously associate director of the Getty Research Institute, and prior to that, director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. Her recent publications include “Aztecs in the Empire City: The ‘People without History’ in the Met” (2021), and, with Iria Candela, Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art (2023).
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