Peter Rashkin

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Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

Latin American and Latino Art in LA

September 2017 – January 2018

A collaborative enterprise by museums and galleries throughout Southern California

Each album (linked below) has a YouTube slide show featuring the most striking and interesting items from the covered exhibitions, but no text or explanation. For fuller coverage, including explanatory panels that describe the scope and purpose, please visit the FULL ALBUMs.

The slideshows highlight the art; the full albums highlight the curation!

PST LA/LA, part 1

Museum of Latin American Art – Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
Luckman Gallery, CalStateLA – How To Read El Pato Pascual
The Hammer Museum – Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
The Skirball Museum – Another Promised Land…Anita Brenner’s Mexico
The Skirball Museum – Ken Gonzales-Day…Surface Tension: Murals, Signs, and Mark-Making in LA

PST LA/LA, part 2

Los Angeles County Museum of Art – FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985
Angels Gate Cultural Center – COASTAL/BORDER
Pomona College Museum of Art – PROMETHEUS 2017: Four artists from Mexico revisit Orozco
Riverside Art Museum – MYTH & MIRAGE: Inland SouthernCalifornia, Birthplace of the Spanish Colonial Revival
Otis College of Art & Design – TALKING TO ACTION: Art, Pedagogy, and Action in the Americas

PST LA/LA, part 3

Santa Barbara Museum of Art – Valeska Soares – ANY MOMENT NOW
The Broad – COULEUR ADDITIVE, 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art – ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA – Adrián Villar Rojas: THE THEATER OF DISAPPEARANCE
LACMA – PINXIT MEXICI
USC Pacific Asia Museum – WINDS FROM FUSANG
Pasadena Museum of California Art – HOLLYWOOD IN HAVANA
California African American Museum – CIRCLES AND CIRCUITS I

PST LA/LA, part 4

Fowler Museum at UCLA – AXÉ BAHAI: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis
Craft & Folk Art Museum – THE US MEXICO BORDER: Place, Imagination and Possibility
LACMA – A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY
Chapman University – EMIGDIO VASQUEZ AND EL PROLETARIADO DE AZTLÁN: The Geography of Chicano Murals in Orange County
Japanese American National Museum – TRANSPARENT BORDERLANDS: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo

PST LA/LA, part 5

The Getty Center – GOLDEN KINGDOMS: Luxury and Legacy in the Americas
The Getty Center – THE METROPOLIS IN LATIN AMERICA, 1830-1930
The Getty Center – PHOTOGRAPHY IN ARGENTINA, 1850-2010: Contradiction and Continuity
ESMoA – HOPE

PST LA/LA, part 6

Self Help Graphics – DÍA de LOS MUERTOS: A Cultural Legacy, Past, Present & Future
Craft Center in America – MANO-MADE: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Armory Center for the Arts – BELOW THE UNDERGROUND: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico

PST LA/LA, part 7

Chinese American Museum – CIRCLES AND CIRCUITS II: Contemporary Chinese Caribbean Art
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes – ¡MURALES REBELDES! LA Chicana/o Murals Under Siege
Biscailuz Gallery, El Pueblo de Los Angeles – BORDERS AND NEIGHBORS: Craft and Connectivity between the U.S. and Mexico

PST LA/LA, part 8

Charles W. White Elementary School – A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY: Those of This America, with artists talk: Linda Vallejo and Isabel Avila.
PST – POSTERS and PAMPHLETS

Brilliant recap to PST LA/LA, tying together a number of exhibitions

LACMA tour led by Vincent Price Art Museum director Pete Galindo featuring murals by Willie Herron and discussion with the artist and a visit to Ramona Gardens to see and discuss murals by Herron, Judith Hernandez, the East Los Streetscrapers and more. Great murals; great discussion led by Pete. Read post.