An exhibition at Mexico City’s Museo Jumex argues that from 1960 and ’85, artists across Latin America created a “decolonial” cultural history. However, the use of the term is largely unclear.
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How Photography Developed Argentina’s Modern Identity
An illuminating exhibition at the Getty reveals how photography created and perpetuated a national imaginary in Argentina.
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Collaborations in Contemporary Craft Between California and Mexico
Artists talk about their techniques and collaborations in Mexico and California.
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Motorcycle-Riding Artists Perform in Griffith Park
Carmen Argote has enlisted a crew of motorcycle-riding artists and collaborators to perform in the park this Saturday.
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The West African Roots of a Masquerade Garment in Brazil
A priest of Ifá divination and an art historian discuss the masquerades of Yoruba religion and how they evolved in the Americas.
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Four Los Angeles Shows to Look Forward to in the New Year
From an exhibition about the first superstar curator to Pacific Standard Time’s performance festival, there’s strong work aplenty on the horizon.
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An Artist Who Made Her Personal Life Central to Her Art
Anna Maria Maiolino’s first major US retrospective is as much about the progression of a career as about the progression of a life.
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“You Can’t Say It Doesn’t Exist”: A Curator on the Art of Latin American Women from 1960 to ’85
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, a curator of the Radical Women exhibition at the Hammer Museum, talks about this largely ignored history.
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Remembering the Abandoned Art Schools of the Cuban Revolution
An artist and scholar dive into the history of Havana’s National Art Schools, which were abandoned when their architects fell out of favor with the regime.
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LA’s Queer Chicano Artist Networks, from the 1960s to the ’90s
Axis Mundo at the MOCA Pacific Design Center explores how queer Chicano/a artists created a world in Los Angeles from the late 1960s to the early ’90s that has been largely unknown.
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The Ways and Means of Activist Art, from Latin America to LA
USC’s Roski School of Art & Design is hosting an intriguing conversation around the Pacific Standard Time exhibition Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas.
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Pacific Standard Time Returns with Sprawling Latin American and Latino Art Program
The Getty’s long-awaited initiative on Latin American and Latino Art, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, officially kicks off this week.