Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from The Menil Collection Regular Merchandise artists in Los Angeles were

artists in Los Angeles were developing an entirely new “cool school” language

and an essay by David Breslin contextualizes this reiterative aspect of Johns’s career

Franklin Sirmans is curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and former curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection

among other publications

Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from The Menil Collection Regular Merchandise artists in Los Angeles wereThis survey of the diverse icons at the Menil Collection is the first to explore the history and meaning of these remarkable works and their continued ability to surprise and impress. Dominique de Menil acquired many of the museums icons from the noted British collector Eric Bradley in 1985, and the collection is widely regarded as one of the most important in the United States. Not only is the full thousand years of the Byzantine empire represented