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A Renaissance of Mexican Cumbia, Through the Eyes of a Fan
Toño Estrada’s personal archives paint a rare portrait of a brief and beautiful period of Mexican cultural creation. | Isabella Parlamis
Estrada is a documentary filmmaker, archivist, and aficionado of the cumbia scene in northeastern Mexico. Pioneros Vallenatos y Tropicales; The Story of Toño Estrada presents ephemera from a pivotal moment when Colombian cumbia music hit Monterrey, Mexico in the 1980s and ’90s...
Estrada’s archives trace this overlooked period of musical transmission through the rise of the famous Colombian vallenato group Binomio de Oro.
SPONSORED
Fulcrum Arts presents Souvenir by Ohan Breiding & Shoghig Halajian
Breiding and Halajian’s autotheory publication scrutinizing scientific nomenclature and narrative-making launched April 7 on Fulcrum Arts’ transmedia online platform Sequencing. "At its heart,” write the artists, “Souvenir is a meditation on the intimacies and affective residues of environmental disaster.”
View the work at www.fulcrumarts.org/sequencing/souvenir
Getty Acquires LA Bookseller’s Vast Black Art Archive
Whitney and Lee Kaplan’s collection includes some 3,500 artist’s books, catalogs, magazines, zines, and rare ephemera. | Jasmine Liu
UP THE COAST
Lynn Hershman Leeson Thinks It’s Time That Her Work Is Recognized
“For years, I couldn’t show my work, I couldn’t get a gallery, and people in New York wouldn’t pay attention to me,” she says. “So I think I deserve it — just for not giving up if nothing else.” | Emily Wilson
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CLOSING SOON
Dorian Ulises Lopéz Macías: Hasta Que Te Conocí at LaPau Gallery, 2022 (image courtesy LaPau Gallery)
Dorian Ulises López Macías: Hasta Que Te Conocí
LaPau Gallery through April 16
Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Fiction Workshop
Steve Turner through April 16
EJ Hill: Wherever We Will to Root
Oxy Arts through April 22
Lisa Anne Auerbach: Unraveling
GAVLAK through April 23
Abraham Cruzvillegas: Tres sonetos
Regen Projects through April 23
ON VIEW
Mapping Fiction
The Huntington Library, West Hall, through May 2
Genevieve Gaignard: Strange Fruit
Vielmetter Los Angeles through May 7
Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children
Craft Contemporary through May 8
‘How Do You See This World?’ The Art of Almighty God
Fowler Museum through May 8
Diedrick Brackens: heaven is a muddy riverbed
Craft Contemporary through May 8
Phyllida BarlowHauser & Wirth through May 8
Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation
Hammer Museum through May 15
