South and Southeast Asian Art
South and Southeast Asian Art
The collection consists of paintings, sculptures, and decorative art from India, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Bronze and Iron Age objects from Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand are on view along with Buddhist and Hindu sculpture from all periods and regions. The collection is especially notable for its early Tibetan and Nepalese paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts.
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The Magnificent Eleven
Does the focus on blockbuster temporary exhibitions cause us to miss treasures found in our own permanent collections? The Los Angeles Times posed this very question to a dozen curators and art specialists who then composed a list of the best museum pieces throughout the region. Eleven artworks were chosen from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Profoundly varied, pieces range from the ancient to the contemporary. We call them the Magnificent Eleven.
A Quiet Moment: Himalayan Art Galleries
There’s been a lot of movement here at LACMA lately. First, Metropolis II went on view in January. Then, the 105-mile journey of the 340-ton megalith that will be a part of Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass concluded on March 10. When I want to slow down, I go to the Himalayan galleries, located on the fourth floor of the Ahmanson Building, to look at art from Tibet and Nepal...
LACMA’s New South Asian Sculpture Gallery
As a consequence of LACMA’s current loan exhibition of Indian art to Mexico and Chile, the South and Southeast Asian Art Department’s flagship gallery of South Asian sculpture needed to be reinstalled because many of the stellar works displayed in the gallery are now in the traveling exhibition. This was a welcome opportunity, as the gallery (located on the top floor of the Ahmanson Building) had last been reinstalled in 1998 and would benefit from an updated presentation...
