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Chief curator Matthew Robb stands in front of Felipe Linares? "Cemetery of the Little Red Devil" (1982), on view in the Fowler Museum's exhibition ‘Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives.’
Matthew Robb , the new chief curator of UCLA's Fowler Museum, believes we still have much to learn from the ancient cultures of the Americas. Growing up in Texas and Alabama as the son of an art historian and a museum director, Robb took many family trips to Mexico. The ancient ruins he explored there made a lasting impression. At Princeton, where he earned a bachelor's degree and worked in the campus museum, he remembered the "romantic feel" of Central Mexico and decided to build a career studying the area's art and architecture. He earned a master's degree at the University of Texas and a doctorate at Yale. Before being named chief curator of the Fowler Museum at UCLA in May, he was curator of the arts of the Americas at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. What about your Princeton experience led you to build a career in this field? At that time, Mesoamerican archaeology and art history were undergoing profound changes.
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