LACMA presents a groundbreaking exhibition of Spanish Colonial Art and its pre-columbian origins.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), in partnership with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Mexico, presents Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, the first exhibition in the United States to examine the significance of indigenous peoples and cultures within the complex social and artistic landscape of colonial Latin America.

Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World examines the significance of indigenous peoples within the artistic landscape of colonial Latin America.

The exhibition offers a comparative view of the two principal viceroyalties of Spanish America —Mexico and Peru— from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Under colonial rule, Amerindians were not a passive or homogenous group but instead commissioned art for their communities and promoted specific images of themselves as a polity. By taking into consideration the pre-Columbian (Inca and Aztec) origins of these two vast geopolitical regions and their continuities and ruptures over time, Contested Visions offers an arresting perspective on how art and power intersected in the Spanish colonial world.

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General Admission: Adults: $15; students 18+ with ID and senior citizens 62+: $10. Free General Admission: Members; children 17 and under, after 5 pm weekdays; for L.A. County residents, second Tuesday of every month; Target Free Holiday Mondays.

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