Exhibition catalog essay

youre writing a catalog essay for an exhibition that you are curating at LACMA, a major museum in Los Angeles. You are the head curator of this exhibition. You developed the idea for the show, “Art and Encounter in Spanish America,” and borrowed the historical artifacts, objects, and materials from other museums and private collections around the country and internationally. The catalog will be available for purchase at the museum gift shop just in time for the exhibition opening, and you are responsible for writing one of the essays for the catalogue focusing on a single item from the exhibition. This is what your essay should look like, and these are the three questions it needs to address: 1) What is this object? 2) How does this object relate to the exhibition theme, and 3) What is interesting or remarkable about this object that adds nuance and depth to the theme? For your reference while selecting the object, here’s the exhibition title and theme: Art and Encounter in Spanish America This exhibition at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) presents an eclectic collection of sculptures, paintings, and built environments that emerged from cross-cultural encounter in Spanish Latin America and the Caribbean, between 1504 and 1898. The Spanish invasion and colonization of Indigenous territories in the Western hemisphere abruptly transformed the region into a global crossroads of people, goods, and ideas. This show brings together works that demonstrate the profound impact of evangelization, the transatlantic slavery, and colonization in the arts and material culture of the Spanish empire in the Americas. SPECIFICATIONS Your essay should be 2 pages long (or between 450 and 500 words) and include the captioned image of your selected object. Please use 12 point, Times New Roman font, single spaced. Please conduct as much external research as needed, but DO NOT include a bibliography or footnotes in the paper!