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LACMA Exhibition Showcases Provocative Artworks Created After the Chicano Movement
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) April 6, is the first major consideration of the legacy of Chicano art in almost two decades. Unlike most exhibitions of Chicano art that have preceded it, Phantom Sightings moves away from efforts to define a distinct identity or style and instead focuses attention on conceptual strategies that artists use to intervene in public spaces or debates. Phantom Sightings traces these tendencies to the late 1960s, adding a new dimension to our understanding of Chicano art history and notions of ethnic identity, cultural politics, and artistic practice.
As the exhibition’s title, inspired by artist and commentator Harry Gamboa Jr., suggests, Chicanos have historically constituted a “phantom culture” within American society—largely unperceived, unrecognized, and uncredited by the mainstream. In contrast, Chicano art was established as a politically and culturally inspired movement during the late 1960s and early ‘70s, stressing ethnic pride and political empowerment. Although Chicano art was primarily represented by the traditions of painting, muralism, and graphic arts, there has always existed a simultaneous, if less historicized, experimental and conceptual tendency whose art forms encompass performance, video, photography, film, and unsanctioned “guerilla” interventions into daily urban activity. This direction has proved to be of particular interest to many Chicano artists coming of age in the 1990s and beyond. (Read more.)
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Current Exhibitions
LACMA Exhibition Showcases Provocative Artworks Created After the Chicano Movement
March 2008 | PDF: 92Kb
LACMA Exhibition Focuses on Rare—and Provocative—Ensor Print
February 2008 | PDF: 62Kb
Upcoming Exhibitions
LACMA Reunites Treasures from William Randolph Hearst's Famed Collection
May 2008 | 72KB
LACMA Exhibition Features Seminal Street Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia
May 2008 | 44.9Kb
LACMA Showcases Los Angeles-Based Chicano Artists from the Collection of Cheech Marin
March 2008 | 69.7Kb
LACMA Hosts Major Collection of Edo-Period Japanese Art
March 2008 | 96.1Kb
Advance Exhibition Schedule
December 2007 | PDF: 94Kb
Permanent Collection Installations
Kanemitsu in California during the 1960s and 1970s
February 2008 | PDF: 46.8Kb
A Connoisseur's Delight: Indian Paintings from the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection
February 2008 | PDF: 33.6Kb
A Masterpiece Restored: LACMA's Tibetan Painting of Yama and Yami
February 2008 | PDF: 37.8Kb
Advance Installation Schedule
March 2008 | PDF: 42Kb
Collections & Recent Acquisitions
LACMA Acquires Key Fifteenth Century Venetian Painting; Cima da Conegliano Masterpiece to Anchor High Renaissance Gallery
February 2008 | Word doc: 377Kb
LACMA Acquires Major Collection of Modern Art
December 2007 | PDF: 69Kb
LACMA Acquires Rare Old Master Painting Never Viewed Publicly Until Now
July 2007 | Word doc: 266Kb
Bellows Acquisition Underscores Growing Prominence of LACMA's American Art Department
July 2007 | Word doc: 361Kb
LACMA Acquires Monumental Sculpture by American Artist Richard Serra
May 2007 | PDF: 113Kb
LACMA Acquires Rare Renaissance Statue
January 2007 | PDF: 45Kb
LACMA Receives Major American Realist Painting: Thomas Eakins's Wrestlers
December 2006 | Word doc: 496Kb
Seventy Works from the Permanent Collection of American Paintings Featured in Exhibition in Mexico
September 2006 | Word doc: 43Kb
LACMA Receives Significant Tibetan and Nepalese Artworks from Actor James Coburn and His Wife, Paula
August 2006 | Word doc: 1Mb
LACMA Acquires Madina Collection of Islamic Art
2002
New Acquisitions
LACMA Transformation
More than 60,000 Flock to LACMA to Celebrate the Opening of the New Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM)
February 2008 | PDF: 37.7 Kb
LACMA's Transformation
February 2008 | PDF: 105Kb
BCAM at LACMA
February 2008 | PDF: 131Kb
BCAM Design and Construction Fact Sheet
February 2008 | PDF: 36Kb
BP Grand Entrance
February 2008 | PDF: 33.7Kb
Outdoor Installations at LACMA
February 2008 | PDF: 61.3Kb
LACMA Backgrounder
February 2008 | PDF: 40.4Kb
Michael Govan: LACMA Chief Executive Officer and Wallis Annenberg Director
February 2008 | PDF: 24.2Kb
Eli Broad: Founder, The Broad Foundations
February 2008 | PDF: 21Kb
Renzo Piano: Founder, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and Architect, Transformation
February 2008 | PDF: 110Kb
Architect's Statement
February 2008 | PDF: 58.3Kb
Phase I Image Sheet
February 2008 | PDF: 298Kb
BCAM Image Sheet
February 2008 | PDF: 349Kb
Outdoor Installations Image Sheet
February 2008 | 166Kb
LACMA Invites L.A. to Free Community Weekend Celebrating the Opening of BCAM
February 2008 | 38.8Kb
The Broad Foundations
February 2008 | PDF: 21.8Kb
BP Statement
February 2008 | PDF: 22.9Kb
Target Statement
February 2008 | PDF: 22.4Kb
Credit Suisse Statement
February 2008 | PDF: 75.4Kb
Events
LACMA Muse Elevates its Annual Young Directors Night with Art of Film Award
March 2008 | PDF: 35.1Kb
LACMA’s Art Museum Council Presents 51st Annual Art & Architecture Tour
March 2008 | PDF: 44.3Kb
LACMA’s Art Museum Council Presents Wet Paint: Sunday in the Park with Art
March 2008 | PDF: 34.8Kb
LACMA Celebrates Transformation with 2008 Art & Music Concert Series
December 2007 | PDF: 64Kb
LACMA Invites L.A. to ARTscape: Late Night Celebration and All-Access Weekend
May 2007 | PDF: 87Kb
Artwalk After Party Holds Court in Historic Helms Bakery Building
May 2007 | Word doc: 76Kb
LACMA Ignites Cinco de Mayo with the Sizzling Latin Sounds Series
April 2007 | Word doc: 147Kb
L.A. Musicians Take Over Friday Night Jazz
March 2007 | Word doc: 113Kb
Grants & Gifts
LACMA Receives $10 Million Gift from Jane & Marc Nathanson; Gallery to be Named in Their Honor
January 16, 2008 | PDF: 35Kb
BP Donates $25 Million to LACMA as Transformation Campaign Shifts into Phase II
March 6, 2007 | PDF: 56Kb
Over $2 Million Awarded to Three Los Angeles Museums from The James Irvine Foundation
August 2006 | Word doc: 39Kb
LACMA Acquires Rare Porcelains by Auguste Rodin
August 2004
General News
More than 60,000 Flock to LACMA to Celebrate the Opening of the New Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM)
February 2008 | PDF: 37.7 Kb
LACMA Music Series Awarded First Place by Chamber Music America/ASCAP
February 2008 | 36Kb
LACMA Responds to News of Investigation of Southeast Asian Objects in its Permanent Collection
January 24, 2008 | PDF: 34Kb
LACMA Creates First-of-its-Kind Arts Education Program
November 7, 2007 | PDF: 68Kb
LACMA Announces New Board Chair; Andrew M. Gordon to Lead Board of Trustees through Transformation
October 18, 2007 | PDF: 35Kb
LACMA Receives Long-Term Loan of Important Spanish Colonial Art from Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
July 2007 | Word doc: 104Kb
LACMA Hires New Department Head and Curator of Photography
May 2007 | Word doc: 68Kb
LACMA Board Enhanced by Business and Entertainment Leaders: Barbra Streisand, Anthony N. Pritzker, Willow Bay, Chris DeWolfe Elected as Trustees
February 2007 | Word doc: 48Kb
Archive
Greatest Hits of the 60s and 70s; Exhibition Features Southern California Art of an Era
August 19, 2007–March 30, 2008 | PDF: 58Kb
LACMA Explores Dalí's Surrealism from Paintings to Cinema
October 14, 2007–January 6, 2008 | PDF: 198Kb
LACMA Presents 300 Years of Latin American Art in Groundbreaking Exhibition
LACMA Presenta 300 Años de Arte Latinoamericano en una Exposición sin Precedentes
August 5–October 28, 2007 | Word doc: 2.1Mb
Dan Flavin's Light Works Illuminate at LACMA
May 13–August 12, 2007 | Word doc: 180Kb
Tales of Krishna
August 15, 2006–July 31, 2007 | Word doc: 943Kb
Alternative Photographic Perspectives of the West Unveiled in Re-SITE-ing the West
March 4–June 3, 2007 | PDF: 23Kb
Modernism and the American West Intersect in The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950
March 4–June 3, 2007 | PDF: 191Kb
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images
November 19, 2006–March 4, 2007 | Word doc: 626Kb
LACMA Collaborates with John Baldessari on Exhibition Installation that Turns the World Upside-Down
November 19, 2006–March 4, 2007 | Word doc: 635Kb
Picasso's Greatest Print in All Its States on View for the First Time in the U.S.—Exclusively at LACMA
November 16, 2006–February 25, 2007 | Word doc: 43Kb
LACMA Presents Recently Acquired David Painting Never Seen Publicly Until Now
October 19, 2006–January 21, 2007 | Word doc: 106Kb
Consider This... Project Studio
September 2006 | Word doc: 39Kb
Consider This…
April 9, 2006–January 15, 2007 | Word doc: 994Kb
Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture—Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
October 12, 2006–January 7, 2007 | PDF: 90Kb
Long Exposures: Contemporary Photo Essays from the Permanent Collection
October 12, 2006–January 7, 2007 | PDF: 85Kb
Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection
September 17, 2006–January 7, 2007 | Word doc: 1Mb
Glass: Material Matters
April 30–December 10, 2006 | Word doc: 991Kb
Transparent Reflections: Richard Pousette-Dart, Works on Paper, 1940-1992
June 29–September 17, 2006 | Word doc: 1004Kb
David Hockney Portraits
June 11–September 4, 2006 | PDF: 56Kb
Tribute to the Life and Art of Nam June Paik at LACMA
June 2006 | Word doc: 2Mb
A Curator's Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek
May 11–August 20, 2006 | Word doc: 1Mb
Latin Legends, Latin Sounds
April 2006 | Word doc: 1Mb
Five Major Klimt Works on View at LACMA
April 4–June 3, 2006 | PDF: 39Kb
Late Night Birthday Bash Kicks Off Festivity-Filled Weekend
March 2006 | Word doc: 6Mb
LACMA Pulls All-Nighter for 40th Birthday
March 2006| Word doc: 1Mb
LACMA’S Highly Anticipated 12th Annual Muse ArtWalk
March 2006 | Word doc: 1Mb
LACMA Expands Music Department and Offers Four Diverse Music Programs for L.A. Culture Enthusiasts
March 2006 | Word doc: 988Kb
LACMA at 40: Gifts in Honor of the Museum’s Anniversary
January 2006 | PDF: 35Kb
LACMA Announces Latino Arts Initiative; Forges Partnership with UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
October 2004
The Bookshelf at LACMA Opens to the Public
November 2003
LACMA Acquires Major Works of Art Through the Generosity of 2003 Collectors Committee
May 2003
LACMA Adds More than 1,400 Works of Art to Permanent Collection in 2002
February 2003
Annenberg Foundation Makes $10 Million Endowment Gift To LACMA
December 2002
LACMA Acquires Major Diego Rivera Drawing
July 2002
LACMA Awarded $1.86 Million Grant From The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation To Endow Conservation Position
May 2002
LACMA Acquires Masterpiece by Nineteenth-Century American Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer
May 2002
LACMA Returns Rare Medieval Textile Seized By Nazis To Polish Museum
March 2002
Image Above:
Jean-Antoine Houdon (France, 1741-1828), Voltaire Seated (detail), p laster, with vestiges of paint and terracotta slip, with metal supports; modern painted wood base, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, M.2004.5.
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