ITHACA, NY.-The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art opened the exhibit A New World: Pre-Columbian Art from the Carroll Collection through June 15. In 2006, the Johnson received a spectacular gift of pre-Columbian ceramics, stone carvings, tools, and gold adornments in a great variety of form and decoration from Thomas Carroll, PhD 1951. The collection primarily represents cultures active in present-day Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Costa Rica, with the greatest concentration from Ecuador; the exhibition highlights these fascinating and less-studied Ecuadorian works, underlining the Museum’s enhanced status as a destination for the appreciation and study of these cultures. Works range from tiny Valdivia fertility figures dating from 3000 BC (among the oldest figural sculptures in the Western Hemisphere) to objects such as a tall, elegant Tuza urn from Carchi province, datable between 1250 and 1500 AD.