Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents first comprehensive exhibition of Lankan art by a US museum

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting the first comprehensive survey of Sri Lankan art organized by a U.S. museum.

According to Art Daily -the exhibition titled - 'The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka,' drawn in part from LACMA’s collection of Sri Lankan art, and including numerous domestic and international loans, presents some 240 works addressing nearly two millennia of Sri Lankan history.

The Jeweled Isle presents a timely exploration and celebration of a geographically complex, ethnically diverse, and multicultural South Asian hub. 

The exhibition is curated by Dr. Robert L. Brown and Dr. Tushara Bindu Gude, of LACMA’s South and Southeast Asian Art Department, and is designed by Los Angeles-based architecture firm Escher GuneWardena Architecture. 

“LACMA has a long history of collecting South and Southeast Asian art and its Sri Lankan holdings are more expansive and diverse in range than those found in any other U.S. collection,” said LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan. “These works are at the heart of this exhibition.”