Exhibition opens: 'Eat, Pray, Weave: Ancient Peruvian Art from the Nasher Collection'

This exhibition highlights the Nasher Museum's vast collection of Pre-Columbian art, focusing on works from the region that is present-day Peru in the South American Andes. Many of these are from the collection of Paul and Virginia Clifford, enthusiasts of Pre-Columbian art who donated more than 800 works to the former Duke University Museum of Art in January 1973. On view for the first time in many years, these objects exemplify the sophisticated material culture that flourished among the Paracas, Nasca, Moche, Chimú and Chancay peoples who pre-dated or ultimately succumbed to the Inca Empire. IMAGE BELOW: Nazca, Plate, 100-300. Ceramic, polychrome, 1 3/8 x 5 13/16 x 5 13/16 inches (3.5 x 14.7 x 14.7 cm). Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. The Paul A. and Virginia Clifford Collection, 1973.1.448.