Happenings

In late July, LACMA’s new Latin American galleries will be opened to the public. The galleries will feature recent acquisitions, Spanish colonial, modern, and contemporary art, as well as a collection of ancient American art, which spans 3,000 years of North, Central, and South American history. The pre-Columbian material will be displayed in a special installation, designed by artist Jorge Pardo, that abandons the traditional culture-chronology layout used in most museum galleries in favor of a thematic approach intended to provide a greater cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic context for the ancient objects. Pardo’s installation design was funded in part by the David Bohnett Foundation, Ann Tenenbaum, and Thomas H. Lee, and other donors.