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Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
October 2, 2010–January 9, 2011
Olmec civilization, which began sometime around 1400 BC, was centered in the Gulf Coast states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Olmec architects and artists produced the earliest monumental structures and sculptures in Mexico, including enormous basalt portrait heads—weighing up to twenty-four tons—of their rulers. This exhibition, co-curated by LACMA's Senior Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas, Virginia Fields, will be the first presentation on the West Coast of the colossal works and precious small-scale sculptures produced by Mexico's earliest civilization.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco with the collaboration of the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes-Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Panel Discussion: The Cascajal Block and Other Evidence of Early Writing in the New World
Oct 22 | 6 pm
Symposium: New Discoveries
Oct 23 | 9 am
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