Huntington to Host Smithsonian Show of Chicano Prints
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| Amado M. Peña, Jr., La Lechuga, 1974. Smithsonian American Art Museum |
The Huntington will be hosting a traveling show of Chicano prints organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Known as "¡Printing the Revolution!" in previous venues, it will be titled "Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" at the Huntington. It will run Nov. 16, 2025, to Mar. 2, 2026, in the Boone Gallery.
The exhibition originated at the Smithsonian in 2020 and was stalled by COVID. It has since played museums in Fort Worth (Amon Carter), Hanover, NH., Nashville, and Winter Park, Fla. The Huntington has commissioned a mural by Melissa Govea, in collaboration with Self Help Graphics & Art, to accompany its presentation.
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As for the Huntington, I know in the former residence, some large murals by a contemporary artist were displayed at least a few months ago on the walls of the main stairwells.
The Huntington visitors' brochure has a photo of this:
> Kehinde Wiley's "A Portrait of a
> Young Gentleman": This
> commissioned work by
> American artist Kehinde Wiley
> was featured in the Thornton
> Portrait Gallery, directly across
> from Thomas Gainsborough's
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I like contemporary art as much as the next person. But when it becomes a bit too overdone in various museums in LA (etc), I realize the TikTok and Instagram generation has truly arrived. It's one reason why, as another example, LACMA has become "....a de facto museum of contemporary art, but frankly...not a very good one."
Michael Govan recently was waxing poetic about seeing contemporary art in the new Geffen Galleries. Or not just in the Broad wing (set aside for modern/contemporary) and the Resnick building (for special exhibits).
What contemporary artist (from Japan----not Korea, not France, not Brazil, not Iran, etc) is going to be inserted into the Bruce Goff/Joe Price building (for Japanese art)?