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Citizen 13660, a Graphic Memoir of Japanese Concentration Camps, Is an Understudied Masterpiece

by Caroline Ellen Liou November 14, 2021November 12, 2021

Seeing Miné Okubo’s memoir makes the betrayal, humiliation, and downright misery suffered by countless Japanese Americans hit home in a way that no history textbook ever could.

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Honoring 50 Activists and Advocates at the Japanese American National Museum

by Matt Stromberg March 3, 2020

In conjunction with an exhibition on the immigrant experience, the museum hosts workshops ranging from a letter-writing session to paper crane folding and weaving lessons.

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How Our Conversations Around Mixed-Race Identity Have Evolved in the 21st Century

by Dan Schindel July 9, 2018July 6, 2018

A project illustrates how the explosion of the internet has allowed for a more involved, varied, and purposeful construction of one’s identity.

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Years After Controversial Sale, Artworks from Japanese Internment Camps Go on View

by Abe Ahn February 21, 2018February 21, 2018

The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles acquired the items that are now on display in an exhibition that underscores the tragic context of their making.

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Ways to Talk About Latin American and Latino Art

by Elisa Wouk Almino November 3, 2017November 6, 2017

This year, the Getty initiative known as Pacific Standard Time has focused on the very broad categories of Latino and Latin American art. How we talk about these categories matters.

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FDR’s Executive Order Authorizing Japanese-American Incarceration Shown on West Coast for First Time

by Allison Meier May 3, 2017

On the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order that led to the imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, the document went on display at Los Angeles’s Japanese American National Museum.

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An Exhibition Examines the Executive Order that Interned Thousands of Japanese Americans

by Matt Stromberg February 16, 2017February 16, 2017

Instructions to All Persons at the Japanese American National Museum looks back at Executive Order 9066, which was signed by President Roosevelt 75 years ago.

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After the Election, US Museums Affirm Their Roles as Safe, Open Spaces

by Allison Meier November 18, 2016

The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tenement Museum, and Japanese American National Museum are among those speaking out.

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A Conversation with Curator Eric Nakamura on the Fourth Giant Robot Biennale

by Abe Ahn October 14, 2015October 16, 2015

LOS ANGELES — While museum biennials can generally feel like lofty affairs, the Giant Robot Biennale 4 at the Japanese American National Museum takes a more populist approach to its roster of visual artists and illustrators, presenting sketchbooks and zines as well as paintings and sculptures.

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Who Are the Rightful Owners of Artifacts of Oppression?

by Aaminah Shakur May 7, 2015May 7, 2015

Imagine this: boxes of family photos, wood carvings, landscape paintings, handmade jewelry, and other items being put up for auction.

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Celebrating Supercute: Hello Kitty Gets a Retrospective

by Erin Joyce November 25, 2014November 27, 2014

LOS ANGELES — The retrospective: it’s standard fare in the museum world, a survey of an artist’s work over some stretch of her career. In Los Angeles, however, I’m not sure if there’s such a thing as “standard fare.”

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The Human Face of a WWII Tragedy, in Full Color

by Abe Ahn August 19, 2014

LOS ANGELES — In August 1942, thousands of Japanese Americans from Los Angeles began their lives as prisoners on a wide stretch of prairie in northwestern Wyoming.

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