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In LACMA’s blog Unframed, artist Vincent Valdez discusses his work Excerpts for John (2012), which will be featured in the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing opening June 11 at LACMA. As a tribute to friend who served in Iraq, this paintings series presents the sequence of a military funeral procession.
La Voz reviewed Uncompromised: The Lupe Anguiano Story, in which author Deborah Wright describes the lifetime achievements of Anguiano. Wright used the Lupe Anguiano Archives at the CSRC as part of her research.
The UCLA Institute of American Cultures and the CSRC will host an event at which Chancellor Block will present the UCLA Medal to Raphael Montañez Ortiz, artist and social justice advocate. The June 8 ceremony will celebrate Chicano art and culture in Los Angeles.
Home—So Different, So Appealing, opening later this year at LACMA, will feature work by artist Johanna Calle. Her work is on display at Ruiz-Healy Art through June 24 in a solo exhibition titled Johanna Calle: Trama.
In a UCLA Newsroom Q&A, Kelly Lytle Hernández, associate professor of history and former CSRC associate director, discusses her new book, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and The Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles 1771-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
Art News previewed Home—So Different, So Appealing in a list of exhibitions and biennials opening in the summer of 2017.
Frieze put on a symposium in New York on Friday, May 5 in an effort to raise awareness of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.
In an opinion piece for Artnet News, Karen Mary Davalos, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, draws upon the opening of the new Center for Chicano Art at UC Riverside to discuss the need for sustainable practices regarding the collection, exhibition, and endorsement of Chicano art in Southern California.
The CSRC is mentioned in a UCLA Newsroom piece about the upcoming CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, co-curated by CSRC director Chon Noriega. The exhibition opens June 11 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Home” is part of the Getty-funded arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
Professor and artist David Avalos will present a talk at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, discussing his Milagro hubcap art series.