Mi profesora de español sent me this info about the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s exhibit “The Arts in Latin America.” showing through October 28th.

I haven’t visited the LACMA since living in L.A. six years ago and would love to view this, especially the differences between Mexico/Central America and the South American region.  Did you know they have free admission after 5pm?   What better date night than dinner in West Hollywood and taking in these works.  Oh you’re a tourist in Hollywood?  No problem - they aren’t far from “The Price is Right” studios either.

This video from La Opinión highlights some select works in detail.

The LACMA is halfway between downtown and West L.A., at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90036. 

Museum Info and Exhibit Link:

The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 is an ambitious, multimedia, pan-national presentation of approximately 250 works of art created in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain (which today comprises Mexico and Central America) and Peru (now the countries of Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru) and in the Portuguese colony of Brazil during the three hundred years between the discovery of the “New World” by the “Old” and the creation of new, independent nation-states. The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 will be the first exhibition to disregard the national boundaries created in the early nineteenth century, instead exploring both the artistic differences and commonalities throughout colonial Latin America in a new, synthetic context. Spectacular examples of painting, sculpture, feather-work, shell-inlaid furniture, objects in gold and silver, ceramics, and textiles will be borrowed from public and private collections throughout the Americas and in Europe.