The Boyle Heights nonprofit space founded five years ago by Laura Owens and Wendy Yao had long been the focus of anti-gentrification protests.
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Activists in LA’s Boyle Heights Serve Galleries with Eviction Notices
LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
Anti-Gentrification Coalition Calls for Galleries to Leave LA’s Boyle Heights
LOS ANGELES — The latest development in the debate over art and gentrification in Boyle Heights took place earlier this month, when a public forum was held at the Pico Gardens complex, part of the largest public housing bloc west of the Mississippi.