Fine Arts Museum

Until the 10th of September, in the Caroline Wiess Law Building, you can see an exhibition of objects created in gold by the Pre-Columbian cultures over a period of 2,000 years, from around 500 B.C. to 1600 A.D. Fashioned figures of shamans in transformation into powerful animals, pendants, nose and ear ornaments in the form of birds, felines, caimans, crocodiles, and serpents... These objects — in cast, hammered gold — explore the meaning given to gold by the indigenous cultures of Colombia, their view of the cosmos, and the powers exercised by shamans and chiefs through gold implements.