The gold of the Incas deserved better

"L'or des Incas"

… Much better than the “Pinacothèque”, in Paris. From September 10 to February 6, the Paris museum offers a collection of nearly 300 pieces – pottery, jewelry, fabrics … – from 3000 years of history. This is one of the first shortcuts of the exhibition, which announces “the gold of the Incas”, while the Incas only cover a very small minority of the collection.

But this is not the most important. We can obviously appreciate the effort of the exhibition to share the knowledge of civilizations that preceded the Incas (Mochica, Huari, Sipan …)

The memory of Mexico City

Héctor Garcia

During my latest travel in Mexico, I visited the Mexico City Museum, in the historical center of the city. There was an exhibition of Héctor García, one of the most lustrous photographs in Latin America over the past decades. The main part of his work is an amazing testimony of what Mexico City has been since the 1950s. He covered demonstrations, social conflicts as a photoreporter, and sometimes just took a picture as a life snapshot in the street.

Teotihuacan… Oh my Gods !

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I went to the premiere of the exhibition Teotihuacan, la cité des Dieux, in the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris. Very good idea to highlight this city-state, quite unknown in France. Teotihuacan has had a great influence on Mesoamerica between the 1^st and the 6^th century of our era, preparing the field for the civilization known as the Azteca here. The exhibition presents pieces from several collections, but the large majority comes from the impressive Museum of Anthropology of Mexico.