Splendors

And after the "Splendors," Brian the ichthyologist shared with us his excitement for his subject by first explaining some of the ways scientists can discern between specimens that look (to the rest of us, anyway) an awful lot alike.

05.04 M-mv 2004

And after the "Splendors," Brian the ichthyologist shared with us his excitement for his subject by first explaining some of the ways scientists can discern between specimens that look (to the rest of us, anyway) an awful lot alike.

Reading, thinking, learning M-mv 2004

And after the "Splendors," Brian the ichthyologist shared with us his excitement for his subject by first explaining some of the ways scientists can discern between specimens that look (to the rest of us, anyway) an awful lot alike.

04.04 M-mv 2004

And after the "Splendors," Brian the ichthyologist shared with us his excitement for his subject by first explaining some of the ways scientists can discern between specimens that look (to the rest of us, anyway) an awful lot alike.

Archive 2004-05-01 M-mv 2004

And after the "Splendors," Brian the ichthyologist shared with us his excitement for his subject by first explaining some of the ways scientists can discern between specimens that look (to the rest of us, anyway) an awful lot alike.

04.04 M-mv 2004

And after the "Splendors," Brian the ichthyologist shared with us his excitement for his subject by first explaining some of the ways scientists can discern between specimens that look (to the rest of us, anyway) an awful lot alike.

04.04 M-mv 2004

Of course the work in these shows, much of it very good, lacks the extreme, rarefied delicacy of the greatest "Splendors" pieces.

Chicago Reader 2010

Of course the work in these shows, much of it very good, lacks the extreme, rarefied delicacy of the greatest "Splendors" pieces.

Chicago Reader 2010

Twenty years ago, when a huge, ambitious show at LACMA celebrated the Splendors of Thirty Centuries of Art in Mexico, something strange happened in the very last room of the exhibition, dedicated to the best Mexican painters of the 20th century.

Edward Goldman: Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon Edward Goldman 2012

Twenty years ago, when a huge, ambitious show at LACMA celebrated the Splendors of Thirty Centuries of Art in Mexico, something strange happened in the very last room of the exhibition, dedicated to the best Mexican painters of the 20th century.

Edward Goldman: Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon Edward Goldman 2012