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Unframed Blog
| Mar 26, 2018
Highlighting key sites featured in LACMA’s exhibition Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico: 1915–1985 (on view through April 1),…
Unframed Blog
| Jun 27, 2017
The opening of the first Dwan Gallery in October 1959 occurred during a revolution in transportation technology as profound in its effects as the…
Unframed Blog
| Feb 23, 2016
… leaving the viewer aware that a shift in meaning is still possible. Influenced by contemporary photography, Man’s …
Unframed Blog
| Feb 05, 2014
Every picture tells a story, as we all know. But with artworks the history of a picture’s journey through time also tells an important story.
Unframed Blog
| Oct 29, 2020
In early May, as the museum entered its eighth week of temporary closure due to COVID-19, I wrote for Unframed about the difficulty of translating in…
Unframed Blog
| Jun 25, 2022
Lee Alexander McQueen (1969–2010), the iconic designer of the eponymous fashion label Alexander McQueen, grew up in London’s working-class East End.
Unframed Blog
| Sep 22, 2023
For National Hispanic Heritage Month, which takes place September 15–October 15, we’re sharing highlights from the museum's collection selected by…
Unframed Blog
| Feb 21, 2018
… cacophony of the modern city and to attract the broadest possible audiences. Many people received an education in …
1997 | Silkscreened plastic, fluorescent lightbulbs, and metal fittings
Silkscreened plastic, fluorescent lightbulbs, and metal fittings Full Title: The Best of All Possible Worlds ...
Post 1945, 2014 | acrylic, ballpoint pen, and varnish on canvas
acrylic, ballpoint pen, and varnish on canvas Full Title: Possible Worlds #9021 Portfolio Orig Lang ...
17th century | Repoussé and chased silver
Monographic Series Title: Plate Number: Volume Number Page: Geography: Viceroyalty of Peru, possibly Puno ... world, including to Jerusalem. These fragments were originally nailed to a wooden armature as part of ... a seraph.</P><br> From exhibition <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 (for more information see the ...
circa 1775-1790 | Wood and silver
Geography: Bolivia, possibly Moxos or Chiquitos Artwork Dimensions: 7 1/2 × 11 × 9 1/2 in. (19.1 × 27.9 ... Bolivia.</P><br> From exhibition <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 (for more information see the ... 81–82, pp. 316–25) Bibliographic Entry: Katzew, Ilona, ed. <EM>Archive of the World: Art and ...
mid-18th century | Hammered, repoussé, engraved, chased, and stamped gold
Geography: Brazil, possibly Bahía Artwork Dimensions: Height: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); diameter: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 ... exhibition <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by ... Katzew, Ilona, ed. <EM>Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: ...
late 17th or early 18th century | Wood, iron, tortoiseshell, and bone
Number Page: Geography: Mexico, possibly Campeche Artwork Dimensions: 6 1/8 × 8 1/2 × 5 in. (15.6 ... exhibition <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entry by ... Katzew, Ilona, ed. <EM>Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: ...
18th century | Wood, inlaid with tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, and ivory; mirror glass; and iron
Geography: Guatemala (for export market, possibly Peru) Artwork Dimensions: Chest: 14 9/16 × 24 3/8 × 14 3/8 ... possibly with the involvement of Asian artisans. Archival and material documentation, however, seems to ... creatively reinterpreted.</P><br> From exhibition <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 ...
18th century | Wood, inlaid with tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, and ivory; oil painting on tin; glass; brass; copper fittings; and iron hinges
Number Page: Geography: Guatemala (for export market, possibly Peru) Artwork Dimensions: 32 × 69 3/4 ... experts have argued that their profusion in Lima suggests local manufacture, possibly with the involvement ... Baptist.</P><br> From exhibition <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 (for more information see the ...
last third of the 18th century | Wood, inlaid with mother-of pearl and tortoiseshell, brass, silver, and paint
Guatemala (for export market, possibly Peru) Artwork Dimensions: Diameter: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm) Earliest ... possibly with the involvement of Asian artisans. Archival and material documentation, however, seems to ... creatively reinterpreted.</P><br> From exhibition <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 ...
last third of the 18th century | Wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, and silver
(for export market, possibly Peru) Artwork Dimensions: 5 1/2 × 17 5/16 × 13 3/4 in. (14 × 44 × 35 cm) ... suggests local manufacture, possibly with the involve ment of Asian artisans. Archival and material ... the World</I>, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entries by Ilona Katzew and Luis ...
last third of the 18th century | Wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, and silver
possibly Peru) Artwork Dimensions: Height: 29 1/8 in. (74 cm); diameter: 25 9/16 in. (65 cm) Earliest ... possibly with the involvement of Asian artisans. Archival and material documentation, however, seems to ... <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue entries by Ilona Katzew and ...
18th century | Wood, inlaid with tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl, brass, and silver
possibly Peru) Artwork Dimensions: 13 1/4 × 14 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (33.7 × 36.8 × 23.5 cm) Earliest Date: ... possibly with the involve ment of Asian artisans. Archival and material documentation, however, seems to ... From exhibition <I>Archive of the World</I>, 2022 (for more information see the catalogue ...
circa 1775-1790 | Cast, repoussé, and chased silver
Geography: Upper Peru, possibly Potosí Artwork Dimensions: 9 13/16 × 11 × 7 7/8 in. (25 × 28 × 20 cm) ... Label: <P>Silver was closely associated with empire building in the early modern world. In 1545, ... the Spaniards found the world’s richest silver deposit, the Rich Hill of Potosí (in present-day ...
1988 | Oil on canvas
possibilities, and the twentieth century was no exception. A modern age marked by technological wonders had ... brilliant thinkers, explained that, unlike Europe, “the New World expanded the human imagination.” Young ... Stieglitz, American artists rarely abandoned referential ties to the physical world completely. The ...
circa 1930s-1940s | Polychromed Keen's cement (plaster)
beginning of every century inspires a general sentiment of endless possibilities, and the twentieth century ... unlike Europe, “the New World expanded the human imagination.” Young American students still traveled to ... abandoned referential ties to the physical world completely. The simplification of form, multiple ...
1946 | Gouache on paper on board
century inspires a general sentiment of endless possibilities, and the twentieth century was no exception. ... World expanded the human imagination.” Young American students still traveled to Europe, especially ... referential ties to the physical world completely. The simplification of form, multiple perspectives, and ...
1942 | Oil on canvas
a general sentiment of endless possibilities, and the twentieth century was no exception. A modern age ... Mumford, one of the country’s most brilliant thinkers, explained that, unlike Europe, “the New World ... to the physical world completely. The simplification of form, multiple perspectives, and ideas about ...
1950 | Metal, cotton cord
a general sentiment of endless possibilities, and the twentieth century was no exception. A modern age ... Mumford, one of the country’s most brilliant thinkers, explained that, unlike Europe, “the New World ... to the physical world completely. The simplification of form, multiple perspectives, and ideas about ...
circa 1918 | Oil on canvas
possibilities, and the twentieth century was no exception. A modern age marked by technological wonders had ... brilliant thinkers, explained that, unlike Europe, “the New World expanded the human imagination.” Young ... Stieglitz, American artists rarely abandoned referential ties to the physical world completely. The ...
1949 | Oil on canvas
endless possibilities, and the twentieth century was no exception. A modern age marked by technological ... most brilliant thinkers, explained that, unlike Europe, “the New World expanded the human imagination.” ... Stieglitz, American artists rarely abandoned referential ties to the physical world completely. The ...