The attention-grabbing, Renzo Piano-designed structure on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's campus is cloaked in mystery no more. The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion--a 45,000-square-foot, single-story structure filled with natural light--opens to the public with three exhibitions. First being, Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico is devoted to structures and sculptures from Mexico's Olmec civilization, which began sometime around 1400 BC and was centered in the Gulf Coast states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Olmec architects and artists produced the earliest monumental structures and sculptures in Mexico, including enormous basalt portrait heads—weighing up to twenty-four tons—of their rulers. This exhibition is the first presentation on the West Coast of the colossal works and precious small-scale sculptures produced by Mexico's earliest civilization. Through January 9, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Resnick Pavilion Opens October 2nd
The attention-grabbing, Renzo Piano-designed structure on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's campus is cloaked in mystery no more. The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion--a 45,000-square-foot, single-story structure filled with natural light--opens to the public with three exhibitions. First being, Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico is devoted to structures and sculptures from Mexico's Olmec civilization, which began sometime around 1400 BC and was centered in the Gulf Coast states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Olmec architects and artists produced the earliest monumental structures and sculptures in Mexico, including enormous basalt portrait heads—weighing up to twenty-four tons—of their rulers. This exhibition is the first presentation on the West Coast of the colossal works and precious small-scale sculptures produced by Mexico's earliest civilization. Through January 9, 2010
