News
The Venture reported on the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, on view at MFAH through January 21. The article also described a related public program that took place at the museum called "A Celebration of HOME," at which attendees crafted their own representation of home with cardboard boxes, paper, and other supplies.
Inside the MFAH, a blog published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, featured Pepón Osorio’s two-room installation, Badge of Honor on view in the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through January 21.
The historic Chicano History mural on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, CSRC curates installations at LA Art Show, special offer on the Home catalogue, plus graduate student and visiting scholar fellowships, and more in this month's newsletter!
(Image: Eduardo Carrillo, Sergio Hernandez, Ramses Noriega, and Saul Solache, Chicano History, 1970)
Laura Aguilar’s “At Home with the Nortes” was featured in a roundup of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions. The exhibition Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell was the first comprehensive retrospective of the photographer, and opened at the Vincent Price Art Museum prior to traveling to the Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami.
Inside the MFAH, a blog published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, featured Home artists Manuel Mendanha and Juliana Laffitte of Mondongo, who discuss their artwork Polyptych of Buenos Aires, an altarpiece that portrays Villa 31, a shantytown in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing was reviewed in Dallas News. CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was mentioned as one of the three curators of the exhibition.
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp mentioned the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing on the radio show Art Talk on KCRW 89.9 FM.
CultureMap Houston reviewed the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing. CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was quoted in a discussion of the show’s organizational structure.
UCLA Newsroom reported on the La Raza photo collection and digitization project at the CSRC and the exhibition of selected images at the Autry Museum of the American West until 2019.
Inside the MFAH, a blog published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, featured Home artist Carmen Argote discussing her artwork 720 Sq. Ft.: Household Mutations—Part B, a multiroom carpet pulled from the apartment in which Argote and her family lived for more than twenty years.