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In a piece announcing a new gallery opening in the Glendale area of Los Angeles that is a joint effort between five galleries from Latin America, Artforum referenced its Critics’ Pick of Home—So Different, So Appealing Home and the Getty-funded arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, which is bringing Latin and Latin American art to the forefront of the Los Angeles art scene.
Art in America featured a review of LAXART’s exhibit Raphael Montañez Ortiz, which included a piano destruction performance at the opening reception.
Arte al Día features a preview of the upcoming exhibition La Raza at the Autry Museum of the American West, with images courtesy of the CSRC.
Cuban Art News highlighted the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing as part of a piece on the Getty-funded arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Following a run at LACMA, the show will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from November 19, 2017 – January 21, 2018.
The CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing was mentioned in the “Cultural Highlights” section of the September issue of SWISS Magazine.
CSRC visiting scholar Celia Lacayo, whose research focuses on colorism and racism in Southern California, was asked to comment on an argument between a Mexican street vendor and an Argentine pedestrian in Hollywood. The conflict was captured on video in July and quickly went viral.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega is quoted in this piece discussing the impact of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
A preview piece of the exhibition LA RAZA, opening September 16 at the Autry Museum of the American West, discusses the show’s goal to shed light on the Chicano Movement through photographs from La Raza, the grassroots Chicano newspaper of the 1960s and ‘70s.
The CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing is mentioned in an article discussing a few of the PST: LA/LA exhibitions.
Director and producer Efrain Gutierrez took part in a visual history for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s Academy Oral History Projects. Gutierrez discussed the CSRC’s recovery effort of his film Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!/Por Favor, No Me Entierren Vivo! (1976) and its nomination to the National Film Registry.