‘Painted in Mexico’: LACMA’s remarkable and important new show

Christopher Knight | LA Times | 28th December 2017

After Spain’s colonization of Mexico, the Church acquired great wealth. Paintings were one way for it (and an emerging local elite) to promote itself. And it did – thus supporting a vibrant local artistic community. A first ever survey of this late Baroque art is “spellbinding. [It is] an extraordinary artistic era just coming into focus … and the show a remarkable curatorial achievement, one of the most memorable exhibitions of the year.”