NEW ACQUISITIONS FOR LACMA

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has continued to expand its Latin American holdings. According to the museum’s blog, via the Los Angeles Times, Roberto Matta’s huge painting Burn, Baby, Burn (L’escalade), 1965–66, was acquired for the museum by the Collectors Committee. The canvas is nearly ten feet tall and thirty-two feet wide, which makes it one of the largest paintings in LACMA’s collection. The Collectors Committee also purchased a large historical group of African textiles from the Kuba culture in the region of today’s Democratic Republic of Congo. The museum has not yet announced when its new acquisitions will go on public view.