Night at the Museum

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.

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.

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

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

Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986), It Was Yellow and Pink II, 1959, Oil on canvas; unframed: 91.5 x 76.2 cm (36 x 30 in.), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe 1987.137 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York  

Yoshioka Ichimonji Sukehide, Japanese, active ca. 1360, Wakizashi (Short Sword), Jūyo Token, Signed: Sukehide, 7th month, 18th year [of the Shōhei era], July 1363, Handmade and polished steel, 13 3/4 in. (35 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, acquired in memory of Robert R. Clemons with funds realized from his estate, 2022.11.1

Marisa Morán Jahn, digital rendering of design details for TIPSY, 2025. © Marisa Morán Jahn

Relief with the Head of a Winged Figure, Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 883-859 BC, gypsum alabaster with traces of pigment, 26 ½ x 23 x 2 in., Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding Collection