The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy

Kimi masquerade ensemble in honor of André Sanou’s Qui Dit Mieux?, 2022 (headpiece by David Sanou in the studio of André Sanou; the maker of the body requests anonymity). Collection of the Fitchburg Art Museum. Photo courtesy of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Larry Bell, Triolith (Poppy/Hibiscus) A, 2020. Laminated glass coated with Iconel, 12 x 24 x 12 in. Larry Bell Studio, Courtesy of the Sarlo Collection.

Whistle Figurine of a Seated Dwarf, Mexico, A.D. 600–800, Earthenware, 7 × 4 1/2 × 3 in. (17.8 × 11.4 × 7.6 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of John and Kathi Oppenheimer, 2023.7.78

Patrick Martinez, American, born 1980, Jaguar Guardian, 2024, Stucco, neon, mean streak, ceramic, acrylic paint, spray paint, latex house paint, banner tarp, rope, stucco patch, ceramic tile, tile adhesive on panel, 60 × 120 × 5 in. (152.4 × 304.8 × 12.7 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with The Brown Foundation Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund, 2024.12, © Patrick Martinez, Image courtesy of Charlie James Gallery

Maa Laxmi, From the Darshan Series, 2011, Manjari Sharma (b. Mumbai, India, lives and works in California), Archival inkjet print in brass-embossed frame, Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art; Museum purchase, 2020.48.2a-b, Photography credit: Manjari Sharma, © Manjari Sharma

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Private Landscapes and Public Territories, 1998-2011/2018; mixed media installation including painted and mirrored armoire, found objects, moss, dried flowers, faux topiaries, family photographs, miniature jeweled trees, painted wooden hedges; 120 x 240 x 300 in.; courtesy of the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. Photo: Michael Karibian. 

Shibata Zeshin, Japanese, 1807-1891, Still Life with Vegetables, 19th century, Colored lacquer and gold leaf on paper, 7 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (18.1 × 27 cm), On loan from The Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection, L.2009.10.3 

Yreina D. Cervántez, American, born 1952 and Leo Limón, American, born 1952, Estrella of the Dawn, 1988, Screen print, Image: 15 7/8 × 21 7/8 in. (40.3 × 55.6 cm); Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 in. (55.6 × 76.2 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 91.62.7, © Yreina D. Cervántez and Leo Limón

teamLab, The World of Irreversible Change, 2022, Interactive Digital Work, 6 channels, Endless, Sound: teamLab © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Southern German, from the area of Augsburg, Close Helmet for the Foot Tourney, about 1590, steel (formerly blued) with etching and gilding, and brass, 31.8 × 22.9 × 34.3 cm (12 1/2 × 9 × 13 1/2 in.), 11 lb., 15 oz (weight), The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, 2014.1113. Image © 2021 Worcester Art Museum, all rights reserved.