Indeed, most Maya religious art seems to have been conceived as both physically and spiritually interactive. Contemporary Maya religious practice suggests that giant censers like those in the show ...

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan ... known about the ceramic censers on display comes from contemporary Mayans.

The works in the Kimbell Art Museum’s exhibition on Maya art are well over 1,000 years old, but the curators can’t help but refer to some in modern terms. Take the “Eccentric” flint ...

Because few written records from the height of Maya power still exist, art historians, scholars and contemporary Maya communities have been able to glean information about the ancient civilization ...

Art of the ancient Maya is inextricably linked with the lives ... who was kept very tightly secluded by her father or mother,” he said. The contemporary dancers understand their performance ...

At the same time, contemporary art is the one kind that keeps changing ... and the ribs and channels recall the elaborate reliefs carved in those Mayan blocks of rock. There’s a strong link ...

One sandstone sculpture, from around 700 A.D., was made for the Centipede Kings, who ruled Tonina, a Mayan city in modern-day Chiapas ... (Metropolitan Museum of Art; Nov. 21-April 2.) ...