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Unframed Blog
| Aug 19, 2017
At the entrance of Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the following text, written by curator Howard Fox: “[Almaraz] often painted the…
Unframed Blog
| Feb 08, 2017
… strove to make images and ideas accessible to the broadest possible public, would no doubt take great advantage of all …
Unframed Blog
| Aug 22, 2016
… fabricated 2005, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, made possible by The Belldegrun Family's gift to LACMA in honor …
Unframed Blog
| Apr 30, 2016
… was very telling of the way you think about a play and its possible structure. I remember you kept talking about … in theater, its…
Unframed Blog
| Feb 29, 2016
… wrote my name in as many different ways and permutations as possible. And then when I was done with it, I was done with …
Unframed Blog
| Dec 14, 2015
Homosexuality was invented in Germany? While this might at first sound like a rather preposterous proposition, the idea of an identity based on a…
Unframed Blog
| May 20, 2015
Long before I started working at LACMA, I was well familiar with the museum’s groundbreaking Art and Technology Program of 1967–1971.
Unframed Blog
| Mar 26, 2015
… 50th anniversary, Hyundai Motor has generously made possible the acquisition of Robert Irwin’s Miracle Mile …
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 ...