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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.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., an exhibition co-curated by former CSRC visiting scholar C. Ondine Chavoya, who is quoted in the piece. The CSRC is a lender to this exhibition.
The CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was featured on ABC13.