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LACMA Introduces Recently Acquired Art of the Pacific Objects in an Installation Conceived by Artist Franz West

(Los Angeles, November 2, 2009)—The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents its recent acquisition of one of the most significant private collections of Pacific Island art assembled in the twentieth century in an installation designed by artist Franz West. Representative of the wide range of arts from the Pacific regions and with historic provenance, the collection's greatest strengths lie in artworks from Polynesia and Melanesia. Read more.


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