In a move museum leadership is calling unprecedented, the Art Institute of Chicago has postponed a major exhibition weeks before its opening because of concerns over insufficient inclusion of the ...

A black-on-white bowl from the Mimbres Classic period, about 950 years ago, is decorated with two whales (or perhaps giant fish) swimming into one another, somewhat like a yin-yang symbol. Between ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has indefinitely postponed a major pottery exhibit weeks before it was due to open, citing concerns that the culture and voices of indigenous peoples aren't adequately ...

Archaeologists are tracking the disappearance of a remarkable type of pottery to rewrite the story of a culture’s decline Mimbres bowls, produced by people living in the Southwest from the late 10th ...

The Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has come under renewed scrutiny for its collection of funerary objects originating from ancient civilisations of the Mimbres region of the American ...

The director of the Art Institute of Chicago explains the thinking behind the museum's postponement of a show of Mimbres pottery. Art Institute of Chicago director James Rondeau. Photo courtesy of the ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – A Deming man has been sentenced to two years of probation for digging on federal land and removing several pieces of broken Mimbres pottery in southern New Mexico. Federal ...

Spectacular pottery designed and crafted by people of the Mimbres Valley and surrounding areas from A.D. 1000 to 1130 will be on display at the American Indian Student Center at New Mexico State ...

Since first being unearthed in New Mexico in the late nineteenth century, the striking ceramic bowls made a millennium earlier by people living in the Mimbres River Valley of the American Southwest ...

Mimbres bowls are likely the most famous ceramics in Southwest archaeology and are preserved by natural history, anthropology, and art museums around the country. Mimbres refers to the Mimbres Valley ...