Finding Los Angeles: Barbara Carrasco’s L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
Forty-three mural panels are languishing in a Pasadena storage facility, some ten miles and thirty-five years away from the...
Forty-three mural panels are languishing in a Pasadena storage facility, some ten miles and thirty-five years away from the...
It was the mid-1970s. The social, political, and cultural strivings of the Chicano and Chicano Art Movements were impacting...
Mural detail, The Path to Knowledge and the False University, c. 1974–1975. Private collection; photo: Manuel Delgadillo. There was new hope...
How did ¡Murales Rebeldes! come about? Erin M. Curtis: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and the California Historical Society...
During World War II, a cultural war smoldered on the streets of Los Angeles. The wartime fear that swept across...
From May 1942 to January 1945, in the name of national security, nearly 120,000 West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry...
155 years ago years today, on May 5, 1862, an assault was waged by French soldiers against Mexico. Its outcome...
César Chávez died with an art book in his hands. This final image of the great visionary is appropriate and...
There was a time in 1932 when patrons at the rooftop beer garden of the Italian Hall on Mexican-themed Olvera...
Candles. Crucifix. Flowers. Incense. Fruit. Calaveras. These and other elements comprise the ofrenda, or offering—an essential component of Day of the...
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