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What is PST: LA/LA?
A massive art celebration took place in Southern California from September 2017 until January 2018. Full details at www.kcet.org/pst.
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Disney's WWII Propaganda and LatAm's Artistic Reactions
From Mickey Mouse to Donald Duck, Disney's influence looms large south of the border
In the Los Angeles art show "How to Read El Pato Pascual," Latinx artists confront Walt Disney and his cartoon creations.
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The Only Map You'll Need of PST:LA/LA
Starting this September, Southern California will be a hotbed of art exhibitions, musical performances and film screening events, all exploring the region's relationship to Latin America. Use this map to plan your PST: LALA experience.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than 70 cultural institutions across Southern California. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty.
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Performance
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This Latinx Feminist Performance Series Finds Inspiration in the Animal World
Post date:“En Cuatro Patas (On All Fours),” the Broad’s new Latinx feminist performance series, which will run from January through November of this year, promises to replace our everyday animal reality with something weirder.
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Lowriders, Aliens and the Blending of L.A. and Latin America in the Work of Rubén Ortiz-Torres
Post date:Through Ruben Ortiz-Torres' own work over the past three decades, the artist has grappled with and celebrated themes of hybridity, identity and cultural transmission that weave through many of the exhibitions now on view on Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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World's Smallest Contemporary Museum Journeys to L.A.
Post date:Take a look inside Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (or NuMu, for short) and hear from its founders as they recreate the museum in Guatemala and take their concept on the road to Los Angeles.
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Spotlighting the Work of Transgressive Latinas in Art
Post date:Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is a long-overdue tribute to artists who are not just from Latin America, but who also identify as female.
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Documentary Captures a Dying Culture’s Legacy
Post date:To save what little remains of the Yumano culture, POLEN, the Tijuana-based collaborative art duo created a documentary based on their myths, geographically symbolic locations, dreams and beliefs around death.
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How Modern Day Día de los Muertos Came to L.A.
Post date:Self Help Graphics & Art introduced Día de los Muertos to the United States in 1972. For decades, the legendary arts organization has been the premier producer of the celebration, which is now replicated in communities all over the country.
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Photographer Parses the Politics and Relevance of L.A.’s Murals and Marks
Post date:Artist Ken Gonzales-Day's exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, “Surface Tension,” engages the mural landscape of Los Angeles and the many issues surrounding graphic arts in the public square.
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Artists to Tell Immigrants’ Stories in Exhibitions from L.A. to San Diego
Post date:Border-themed exhibitions underline the plight of the undocumented in the United States and the state of the nation on the issue of immigration.
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Artist Explores L.A. and Mexico's Linguistic and Cultural Connections
Post date:Artist Taniel Morales takes on the similarities and connections between L.A. and Mexico City in his interactive art piece, "Palabra Viva (The Living Word)."
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Capturing the Migratory Experience in Piñatas
Post date:Tijuana-based artist collective, Dignicraft, gives depth to indigenous Purépecha piñatas artisans and their painstaking craft.
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Multiple Exhibitions Explore Latin America's Influence on Modernism
Post date:More than a sharing of aesthetics, the multiple architecture exhibitions uncovered in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA offer insights into individual designers’ approaches to a similar building material, a cultural zeitgeist or mode of political thinking.
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Community Activism and Social Art Practices Get A Rare Spotlight
Post date:It’s not often that artworks that emerge out of community activism and social practices get center stage in art galleries, which makes the latest exhibit at Otis College of Art and Design a particularly unique and poignant one.
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New Murals Celebrate the Culture of Oaxaca in L.A.
Post date:Eight new outsized paintings in Los Angeles's Central Library celebrate the culture of Oaxacans in Los Angeles.
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Legendary Mexican Photographer Gets Her Own Graphic Novel
Post date:At 75 years old, Graciela Iturbide refuses to slow down. In the coming months two exhibitions in Southern California will feature her iconic work, plus her own biography will take on graphic novel form and published by the Getty.
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The Resurrection of L.A.'s Powerful Chicanx Murals
Post date:“¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/o Murals under Siege" is a new book and exhibition that uncover the demise of some of L.A.'s most important Chicanx murals — and what their stories can teach Angelenos about the future of this mighty art form.
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From Homies to Immigrant Children, This Artist Captures Humanity in Glass
Post date:Fine art is filled with glass blown objects but few artists have been able to achieve glass-blown human subjects that critique the harsh realities of today, the hallmark of Jaime Guerrero’s artwork and career.
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Guatemala's Only Contemporary Art Museum is a Rehabbed Egg Stand — and LACMA Wants to Bring it to L.A.
Post date:NuMu, located in Guatemala City, is shaped like an egg and, at most, accommodates up to four visitors. But for those unable to travel to Central America, an exact replica of NuMu will be making its own pilgrimage.
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Latinx Artists Explore the Idea of Home in this New LACMA Exhibit
Post date:“Home - So Different, So Appealing” examines the very personal idea of home and its relationship to heavy matters such as belonging, displacement and poverty, among many socio-political issues.
Art of the Latinx Diaspora
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Cultural Politics
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Self Help Graphics & Art's Día de los Muertos Legacy Told Through Prints
For over four decades, Self Help Graphics & Art become emblematic of the Day of the Dead in L.A. not only through its community celebrations but also through the annual limited-edition prints they commission. Take a look at some of these memorable prints.
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Gabriela Ruiz Is Young, Subversive and Forging Her Own Way in the Art World
With no formal art school training, multimedia artist Gabriela Ruiz is creating her own opportunities to forge a path in a famously stratified field.
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Radio Clandestina Gives Voice to a Marginalized Latinx Community
It was 1996, and big media was swallowing up smaller stations in L.A., leaving little room for Latinx voices. It was into this barren media-scape that the pirate radio station Radio Clandestina emerged.
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The Women of Regeneración: An Incredible History of Organizing, Defying and Empowering
Chicano and Mexican women of all ages featured in Vincent Price Art Museum's “Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology” represents a century of transnational resistance against oppression in its many forms.
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