Descanse en Paz: Memorial Paintings from 19th-Century Mexico 1
Fine Arts Exhibition
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Descanse en Paz: Memorial Paintings from 19th-Century Mexico

At The Fowler Museum at UCLA

Westwood, Los Angeles

🎟️Free admission
🕗Open until 8pm on Wednesdays

Two exhibitions at the Fowler explore Mexican cultural memory: memorial paintings that immortalized 19th-century families in mourning, and the story of cochineal, a vibrant red dye perfected by the Zapotec people.

19th-century Mexican art
Memorial painting tradition
Cochineal dye history
Free museum admission