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We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art

Date
May 16
Time
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Organizer’s Site
lacma.org/art/exhibition
Council District
City Council District 4
Event Series Dates
September 15 - September 2, 2025
Mesoamerican artists held a cosmic responsibility: as they adorned the surfaces of buildings, clay vessels, textiles, bark-paper pages, and sculptures with color, they (quite literally) made the world. Color mapped the very order of the cosmos, of time and space. The exhibition explores the science, art, and cosmology of color in Mesoamerica.
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Location

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036 United States
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Phone:
213.202.5567
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Organizer

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Phone
323-857-6000

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