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Dutch Curiosity Cabinets Get LACMA Show

Ambrosius Bosschaert, Bouquet of Flowers on a Ledge, 1619. LACMA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Carter

LACMA is organizing a fall show around Dutch collector's cabinets. Drawing on nearly every curatorial department at LACMA, plus the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and other lenders, it will bring together 300 paintings, sculptures, prints, gems, shells, and taxidermy specimens documenting a golden age of global exploration and exploitation. The exhibition is to include a digital interpretive guide funded with a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and intended as a prototype for future shows.

"The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector's Cabinet and the Politics of Possession" will appear in the Resnick Pavilion Sep. 17, 2023 through Feb. 11, 2024.


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Anonymous said…
Speaking of "politics of possession," it's nice seeing LACMA present a show that doesn't check off the hip-and-trendy boxes. Or sort of the flip side of the Met's 2021 exhibit of Walt Disney and decorative arts. Or to really make the point, if LACMA created an exhibit along the lines of "The Art of Charles Kincaid."

As for politics and the economy, the Broad Museum seems to have a downsized schedule of upcoming special exhibitions. In the few years they've been around, I don't recall their having such a modest roster before.

LACMA's concrete overpass and Lucas's narrative will be premiering in increasingly uncertain times, both politically and financially.
April 14, 2023 at 8:19 AM
Anonymous said…
Curiously, there was a New York Times Interactive Close Read, which covered the same territory as the upcoming LACMA exhibition:

The title of the Close Read was "A Messy Table, a Map of the World"

The "messy table" in the title is the breakfast table in the painting "Still Life with a Gilt Cup," a 1635 Dutch still life by Heda.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/08/arts/design/dutch-still-life.html

--- J. Garcin
April 15, 2023 at 5:28 PM
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