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This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Likely the most publicized example of Mayan Revival was Robert Stacy-Judd's Aztec Hotel of 1924–1925. Its façade, interiors and furniture incorporated abstract patterns inspired by the Maya script with Art Deco influences, and it was built on the original U.S. Route 66 in Monrovia, California.
Housed in a contemporary structure designed by Mexican architect Manuel Rosen, the museum is home to four galleries, a contemporary “project space” and an outdoor sculpture garden. Founded in 1996 by Dr. Robert Gumbiner, [ 2 ] MOLAA is the only museum in the United States dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American art.
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, California: Malibu: Greater Los Angeles Area: Art: Part of Pepperdine University, works from the collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation: Gallery 825: West Hollywood: Westside: Art: Operated by the Los Angeles Art Association: Gamble House: Pasadena: San Gabriel Valley: Historic house: 1908 ...
Pages in category "Art museums and galleries in Los Angeles" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Maya pendant in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Map showing the locations of some of the main jade, obsidian and serpentine sources in Mesoamerica. The archaeological search for the Mesoamerican jade sources, which were largely lost at the time of the Maya collapse, began in 1799 when Alexander von Humboldt started his geological research in the New World.
Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. London: Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 0-7148-3980-9. Donahue-Wallace, Kelly. Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 2008. Fane, Diana, ed. Converging Cultures: Art and Identity in Spanish America. (exhibition catalogue Brooklyn Museum of ...
Watson Brake, Louisiana, 3500 BC Tikal, Guatemala, Maya civilization. Many pre-Columbian civilizations established permanent or urban settlements, agriculture , and complex societal hierarchies . In North America, indigenous cultures in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Middle Archaic period built complexes of multiple mounds, with ...