LACMA buys seven works, including religious-themed work by Shirin Neshat

LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Jori Finkel

"Speechless," from the series Women of Allah, (1996) by Shirin Neshat,
Image courtesy of Mid East Journal

CALIFORNIA - Sometimes bigger is better when buying art by committee. At this year’s Collectors Committee weekend, the L.A. County Museum of Art bought $2.5-million worth of artwork to add to its permanent collection, including... a tiny Durer print of "Saint Jerome in his Study" from 1514, a pair of oil-on-copper paintings from the 1740s by Mexican artist Nicolas Enriquez depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, a 12th-century Buddhist sculpture carved from Zelkova wood, a 1996 photograph by Shirin Neshat from her series “Women of Allah,”.... [link]