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The Met opens a dazzling wing of non-European art
NEW YORK — Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a 1933 vacation to Mexico. The Met's director at the time, an Egyptologist named Herbert Eustis Winlock, felt as if the art of the early Americas was not a good fit with the museum, and, according to Rockefeller, he worried it might compete with the formidable trove of ancient Egyptian material the museum had assembled.
