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Estevan Oriol and Teen Angel see eye to eye in exhibition ‘Dedicated to You’
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Estevan Oriol and Teen Angel see eye to eye in exhibition ‘Dedicated to You’

LA Times  

Street photographer and artist Estevan Oriol, best known for his image of the “L.A. “My dad told me to start shooting all the stuff that you’re around,” Oriol said. He and Estevan always saw the same kind of beauty.” A bookshelf, complete with every issue of Teen Angel, is positioned next to a wall featuring the magazine’s original cover art …

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Chicana feminist Judithe Hernández draws complex humanity at the Cheech
10 months, 1 week ago

Chicana feminist Judithe Hernández draws complex humanity at the Cheech

LA Times  

In a revealing video interview that accompanies her captivating 50-year survey at the Riverside Art Museum’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, artist Judithe Hernández recounts how she became the anomalous fifth member of Los Four, the groundbreaking L.A. art collective. An activist colleague and friend of Los Four’s Frank Romero, Beto de la Rocha, Gilbert “Magú” Luján …

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Walter Ulloa, media mogul and prolific art collector who elevated Latino communities, dies at 74
1 year, 10 months ago

Walter Ulloa, media mogul and prolific art collector who elevated Latino communities, dies at 74

LA Times  

Growing up in Brawley, Calif., in the ’50s and ’60s — then a farmland sprawl of alfalfa, sugar beet, lettuce and sweet corn crops — Walter Francis Ulloa was an athletic kid. “He went from the early days of broadcasting to digital media, a different beast — it’s amazing what he accomplished starting with nothing but his mind.” Ulloa was …

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‘People have the ability to heal and to let go. Healers help you with that’
2 years, 2 months ago

‘People have the ability to heal and to let go. Healers help you with that’

LA Times  

Jerry Tello regards himself as a healing practitioner, but the community has given him the title of “el maestro”. The building doesn’t have a sign in front, but co-founder Jerry Tello says “the people that need to be here, will be here.” The center was created to be a place for people to come together and heal through presentations by …

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A mariachi space opera meets gender-bending Chicano punk in an ambitious sound art show
2 years, 5 months ago

A mariachi space opera meets gender-bending Chicano punk in an ambitious sound art show

LA Times  

In 2012, four members of Mariachi Nueva Generación, decked out in their dapper charro ensembles, took the stage at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as part of a performance organized for San Francisco Music Day. In Guillermo Galindo’s “Juan Jaula Cage Variations II,” 2012, members of Mariachi Nueva Generación interpret a work by John Cage. In Nervous Gender’s case, …

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How a concert promoter turned her love for lowriders into L.A.’s most original new venue
2 years, 9 months ago

How a concert promoter turned her love for lowriders into L.A.’s most original new venue

LA Times  

Angela Romero, the creator of Hello Stranger, at her space in Little Tokyo. “I always said that ‘hello stranger’ was like a handshake without the handshake,” says Romero, 40, who wears silver hoop earrings and has a shock of dyed wavy hair the color of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. “So when COVID came, I was like, it makes more sense now, …

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'Pop Art nun' Corita Kent's studio gets rare monument status
3 years, 6 months ago

'Pop Art nun' Corita Kent's studio gets rare monument status

LA Times  

Corita Kent’s studio on Franklin Avenue, seen here in the 1960s, was approved for historic-cultural monument status. If you drew a Venn diagram that brought together Charles Eames, Pop Art, commercial printing, social justice movements, the Second Vatican Council and 1960s Los Angeles, only one person could inhabit the space where those areas intersect: Corita Kent. A nun in the …

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Reading Salazar: He was no radical, but a prophetic reporter
4 years, 4 months ago

Reading Salazar: He was no radical, but a prophetic reporter

LA Times  

About 20 years ago, I visited a Chicano bookstore in Santa Ana to buy “Border Correspondent,” a greatest-hits compilation of pioneering Los Angeles Times writer Ruben Salazar. “Mexican Americans traditionally kept their place so why should the big, important news media take notice of them?” The reporter behind the legend Reading Salazar today, my initial opinion of his skills still …

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