Art review: 'Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World,' LACMA

LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Chris Knight

CALIFORNIA - At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a large and engrossing new show includes four big canvases painted in 1783 by Vicente Albán. Just a few of the 181 rarely traveled works assembled for "Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World," Albán's paintings overflow with arresting super-abundance. The magnificent show, organized by LACMA curator Ilona Katzew, is the first in the U.S. to chart the roles assumed by and for indigenous peoples within colonial Latin American art. "Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 857-6000, through Jan. 29. Closed Wednesdays. lacma.org. [link]