On the floor of the California desert, just inches away from a small pool of water, a nude Laura Aguilar reclines on her side. Her breasts are almost stacked one on top of the other—crevassed between her chin and large belly....
Victoria. Venceremos. Uruguay. Margarita Paksa obliterates these words in her distinctive glass-framed works at the Hammer Museum’s “Radical Women: Latin Americ...
Ever fantasized about owning a great artists’ work before s/he was great? At the Secret Art Show, an annual fundraiser for the local nonprofit, Burbank Arts for...
An inflated Statue of Liberty stands tall, green and mannequin-faced, outside the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego, where a Colonia Libertad Consulate offic...
Karla Duarte was on her lunch break at work when she heard that she was going to lose her right to live in the U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had just announced that the Trump administration was rescinding DACA, abruptly ending many of the guarantees enshrined in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that had allowed undocumented youth brought to the U.S. illegally to apply for jobs and lead normal lives without the threat of being deported....
Cobalt, turquoise and aqua-colored inflatable lifesavers of various sizes, strapped together with plastic ties, dominate the entrance of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach. Upon close inspection, the tubes are marked by JFK airport luggage tags with a smudged image of a seemingly armless Statue of Liberty next to the bar codes....
One hundred scattered eggs form a rectangular stage in the courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Art. A young man emerges from the crowd and enters the egg patch, dragging each foot before placing it between eggs. Only when he turns around, does one see that his eyes are closed....
The Caribbean islands are environmentally vulnerable territories where the history of colonialism is a living legacy. A recently opened exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach confronts these issues in the works of 80 contemporary artists from 13 countries in the Caribbean and its diasporas....
My hometown was built on top of a graveyard for horses—at least that’s what Megan Martin’s parents told her and she, in turn, told us. Even if it wasn’t true, it kept our imaginations alight at the prospect of what lay beneath the split-levels and strip malls. For awhile, the closest thing to majesty remained underground, and we weren’t even sure of its existence....
