August 1, 2008

Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art From China

Through September 1 Los Angeles County Museum of Art

In 1972 members of the Chicano avant-garde art collective Asco tagged their names on all the entrances of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This "intervention" — the group's first outside its home territory of East Los Angeles, the birthplace of the Chicano civil-rights movement — was in response to members' being told by a curator at the museum that Chicanos made graffiti, not art. Thus "Spray Paint LACMA"

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