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The exhibitions Home—So Different, So Appealing, Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, and La Raza were all named in an ArtNexus review of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. Home—So Different, So Appealing was organized by the CSRC in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, which debuted at the Vincent Price Art Museum and is now on view at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, was organized in collaboration with the CSRC. La Raza was organized in collaboration with the CSRC and is now on view at the Autry Museum of the American West
Images from the CSRC’s La Raza Photograph Collection were used in a three-part series on the East Los Angeles student walkouts of 1968. The series commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the walkouts by examining the historical context and inspiration behind the students’ demands.
La Raza, on view at the Autry Museum of the American West and organized in collaboration with the CSRC, was featured in a roundup of acclaimed exhibitions in currently on view across Los Angeles.
The exhibition La Raza, now on view at the Autry Museum of the American West and organized in collaboration with the CSRC, was featured in an editorial discussing the strengths of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/ LA initiative.
La Raza was featured in a roundup of exhibitions currently on view across Los Angeles.
Artists Carmen Argote and Daniel Joseph Martinez, whose work was featured in the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, will be among the Los Angeles-based artists whose work will appear in the 2018 edition of the Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum. Martinez was also featured in the CSRC’s installation program at the 2018 LA Art Show.
In an interview for the UCLA Library Powell Blog, CSRC librarian Xaviera Flores and CSRC archives specialist Doug Johnson discuss the exhibition they organized, Las Causas: Zines from the Chicano Studies Research Center Archive, which is on view in the Powell Library Rotunda through March 24, 2018.
The Institute of American Cultures (IAC) invites applications for support of research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os for 2018-2019. The Institute also invites proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the Centers and/or between the Centers and other campus units. Deadline to apply: March 1, 2018.
ArtNexus highlighted Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, organized by the Vincent Price Art Museum in collaboration with the CSRC, as one of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions that are traveling to new venues. The show opened on March 3 at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University; additional venues are to be confirmed.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was quoted in a response to an open letter signed by a number of art professionals calling for a boycott of Swiss artist Christoph Büchel’s proposal to preserve border wall prototypes built in Southern California.