Latin American Art
Latin American Art
In 1997, the collectors Edith and Bernard Lewin added more than two thousand works by Mexican modernists to the collection, making LACMA one of the main U.S. repositories of Latin American art. The museum has since expanded its collection with works from throughout Latin America, ranging from the colonial to the contemporary periods. The modern collection includes works by Diego Rivera, Roberto Matta, and Rufino Tamayo. Postwar and contemporary artists represented include Francis Alÿs, Hélio Oiticica, and Jesús Rafael Soto. View images of Modernism, Postwar Geometric Abstraction or highlights from the Cisneros Colección.
Francis Alÿs
The Director's Series: Michael Govan and Jorge Pardo
LACMA Chief Executive Officer and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan in conversation with contemporary artist Jorge Pardo where they discuss his installation of LACMA's pre-Columbian collection and future plans with LACMA.
New Acquisition: Two Paintings by Nicolás Enríquez
These two oil-on-copper paintings are among the finest by Nicolás Enríquez (1704–c. 1790), a distinguished yet understudied eighteenth-century New Spanish (Mexican) painter. They depict scenes from the life of the Virgin: her marriage to Joseph officiated by the Jewish priest and the adoration of the three kings who kneel before the Christ child as they offer him prodigious gifts...
Taking a Break with Otherworldly Toad, Jaguar, and Serpent
I am fortunate to work directly below the galleries in the Art of the Americas Building at LACMA. In rare instances of downtime (or even when I just need a little break), I climb the stairs to the fourth floor, home of our permanent collection of Latin American art. These galleries never get old to me because they contain an astonishing range of art in terms of both time and space...
