What happens when artifacts from a culture with an oral tradition are collected into a predominantly visual archive? How can such an archive serve to restore such artifacts, if not to their native context, then to at least some functional mode of communication? These fundamental problems of knowledge acquisition, visual representation (both ethnographic and aesthetic), and historiography permeate Gala Porras-Kim's “An Index and Its Histories,” the final iteration of a three-part project dealing with the Proctor Stafford Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The collection is largely comprised of what are thought to be burial figurines and vessels from Colima, Nayarit, and Jalisco on Mexico's Pacific Coast, dating from 200 BCE–500 CE. For the group exhibition “A Universal History of Infamy” at LACMA, Porras-Kim tackled the naming conventions in cataloging the collection. The second part dealt with known contexts and issues of provenance, symbolically repatriating the Nayarit pieces through an exhibition at LABOR in Mexico City. For Commonwealth and Council, Porras-Kim studies the formal vocabulary of objects found in Jalisco and offers parallels from our contemporary visual lexicon. Her graphite drawings and ceramic sculptures of stacked arrangements suggest an incipient language through which the congruence of shapes leads to mnemonic devices that generate sound.‖ Commonwealth and Council welcomes Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (NuMu) from Guatemala City to Los Angeles in the form of an exhibition within the space of our gallery walls.NuMu has spawned a mobile duplicate–a space moving through space–that extends the museum's habitus to a series of places along a trajectory stretching from Guatemala City to Los Angeles, bringing its one-of-a-kind encounter to new landscapes and communities along the way. This fiberglass copy of NuMu is currently part of the group exhibition “A Universal History of Infamy” at the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA) as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA until February 19, 2018. NuMu’s second exhibition at LACMA will present the work of Regina José Galindo.