What was an invitation to paint a protest instead became the first “Guernica” manifestation by a Chicano artist. Fernando Barragan’s masterpiece “No Somos Animales” (We Are Not Animals, 2013) is a daring raw canvas mural depicting violence, pain... Read Article
Eastern Projects Gallery has brought renowned documentary photographer Antonio Turok to the city of Los Angeles. The series of photographs featured in The End of Silence (October 9- November 27, 2021) span a period of 40 years in... Read Article
In her new memoir Margaret Randall details her life as an activist, revolutionary and poet during the turbulent years of the 60s, 70s and 80s in Latin America. I Never Left Home (subtitled Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary) includes a... Read Article
Chulas Fronteras (Beautiful Borders, 1976) and Del Mero Corazon (Straight From The Heart, 1979) are two documentaries from film-maker Les Blank that pan across the Tex-Mex border’s cultural life in the 1970s and the role that norteño, ranchero... Read Article
Francisco Palomares is an emerging Mexican-American artist whose artwork is inspired by urban landscapes and the complex relations within. He was born and raised in Boyle Heights, and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California State... Read Article
Mexican conceptual artist Tania Candiani’s presentation of “Camouflage” at the Frieze Projects (February 14 -16 2020, Los Angeles) charts the historical narrative of forced Japanese labor encampments in California during WWII by simulating the fabrication of giant protective... Read Article
Preludio by Mexican philosopher and poet Enrique Tellez Fabiani is a series of sixty-one poems with a slight feel of Japanese haikus, yet without their traditional three-line, specifically-syllabified format. His poems are poetic references to liberation, love, utopia,... Read Article
Restoring a photographic narrative from a de-colonial perspective allows for a face-to-face experience with images that no longer stand in the way of dignity. The United American Indian Involvement Photographic Project’s inaugural exhibition at the These Days Gallery... Read Article
Like a Rembrandt, Professor Frederick B. Mills assembles philosophical brush strokes of insight on prolific Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel in his recent book (monograph), titled Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation: An Introduction. All gestures of critique by Mills’s research... Read Article
Elizabeth Carranza’s photography knits traditional and millennial practices to contemporary art expressions. Her colorful photography series-currently on display at The Jean Deleage Art gallery at Casa 0101 Theater, as part of the Perspectives group exhibition-,is a stimulating play... Read Article
Perspectives: “Yo Soy American”, an art exhibition at the Jean Deleage Art Gallery in the Casa0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, presents the debut of eight emerging young artists with an inter-visual conversation with visitors, communities and amongst themselves.... Read Article
Rolando Rodriguez’s solo exhibition Ropa Sucia at the Jean Deleage Art Gallery at Los Angeles’ Casa 0101 Theater was a two part theatrical exposure influenced by magical realism. A play between words, ideas and objects, his three-pronged exhibit... Read Article
