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Artists and Lawyers in the Struggle for Free Expression
The third artist panel discussion around the work of the muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros last Friday, titled “Freedom of Speech and Censorship,” included a distinctly non-artist speaker: Tom Raoul de...
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An Old/New Mural Reemerges
For more than a decade, it sat in an abandoned former sanatorium for tubercular patients near Bakersfield, waiting for new eyes to notice it again. No one knew what kind of state it was in. So as...
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David Alfaro Siqueiros: Keeping the Faith in a Master
No one had to convince José Vera that David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) is an important artist. Vera grew up in Mexico City, an artistically rich place that embraced that country’s native sons and...
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Speaking of Siqueiros, Here’s a Look at His Print Side
The Los Angeles art scene has been buzzing all month about the triple-header at two museums and a gallery featuring the work of Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) — which makes for more...
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From Graffiti to Mural Art, With a Few Detours
The Autry’s current exhibition about Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros lionizes the mural América Tropical, one of three U.S. works he painted during his stay in Los Angeles in 1932. But some...
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A Real Revolution Captured on Film
The word “revolution” today is so overused it has almost lost its meaning. Just about everything can be touted as a “revolution” of one kind or another — from the Tea Party’s claim to a second Still...
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Siqueiros in His Native Language
Given all the hoopla this year in Los Angeles over the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and especially at the Autry with the exhibition that focuses on his time in this city, it was only a...
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Showing Some HeArt for the Arts in High Schools
Most art exhibitions are shows that stay on view for at least several weeks. But on Dec. 8, the Autry hosted a one-day lightning exhibition in its Heritage Court of art by students from The HeArt...
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Los Angeles Muralists React to MOCA Controversy
Since the September opening of Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied, which spotlights a 1932 Los Angeles mural by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros that was ordered whitewashed, the Autry...
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Siqueiros Exhibition Closes, but Leaves Its Own Legacy in Music and Poetry
There was poetry and music in the galleries, to add to the art on the walls, at the Autry when Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied closed on Sunday. As a special swan song of the exhibition,...
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John Sonsini, on Contributing to Art of the West: “I was absolutely flipped”
By Tessie Borden John Sonsini, a Los Angeles artist who painted one of the works featured in the Autry’s new Art of the West exhibition, recently talked with Trading Posts about the experience. The...
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