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May 15, 2013

In its annual "People" issue, the L.A. Weekly profiled Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) associate curator of contemporary art Rita Gonzalez, who with Howard N. Fox and CSRC director Chon A. Noriega co-curated the exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement. Gonzalez also co-curated the Pacific Standard Time exhibition Asco: Elite of the Obscure.

May 15, 2013

El País reviewed Asco: Elite of the Obscure, a Retrospective, 1972-1987, now on view at MUAC in Mexico City.  The CSRC is a lender to the show.

El País, May 15, 2013

May 15, 2013
The commentary "Write Your Own History: Sal Castro's Legacy" by Carlos M. Haro, CSRC assistant director emeritus, was reprinted in a special edition of the Eastside newspaper Brooklyn & Boyle. The issue was dedicated to the beloved educator and activist, who died April 15.
May 13, 2013
On May 13, the U.S. Postal Service released a Lydia Mendoza (Forever®) stamp honoring the life of one of the first stars of Tejano music. On the stamp, Lydia Mendoza (1916-2007) is shown strumming a 12-string guitar. The stamp is one of several that inaugurates the USPS's "Music Icons" series.
May 10, 2013
CSRC director and Cinema and Media Studies professor Chon A. Noriega was interviewed for a story on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" concerning NBC's struggle to regain viewership.
May 7, 2013
The writer for the blog Chicano Art Movement paid a visit to the CSRC to attend the library exhibition "Chican@s (Re)Imagining Zapata," curated by UCLA Art History senior Julia Fernandez.
May 2, 2013

Vilma Ortiz and Edward Telles--professors of sociology at UCLA and Princeton University, respectively--wrote a letter to The New York Times responding to two recent Op-Eds concerning Latino and specifically Mexican immigration and assimilation.

May 1, 2013
A symposium on Latino emo on May 31, plus news, opportunities, and a sale on all CSRC art books and DVDs!
April 25, 2013
Harry Gamboa Jr.'s photographic series "Chicano Male Unbonded" was the subject of a "Picture Show" story on the National Public Radio blog.

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