Art y Culture + Los Angeles Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 23, 2009

Final Play May Be the Last for Breath of Fire Latina Theater in Santa Ana

November 20, 2009

Patchwork of Cultures: The Sephardic-Latino Connection — Free Education Program Concert for 900 Los Angeles Students

November 10, 2009

El Dia de Los Muertos at Self Help Graphics in LA

October 27, 2009

Euripides’ Medea, With a Latina Twist – Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble presents the world premiere of The Medea Complex, Oct. 30 – LA

October 14, 2009

‘Semblanza Latinoamericana,’ October 17 and 18 Only at Los Angeles Theatre Center

October 12, 2009

CAPTURING THE MOMENT AT TÍA CHUCHA’S CAFÉ CULTURAL

October 7, 2009

Children’s Readings and Panels at The Latino Book & Family Festival – Los Angeles, October 10-11 CSULA at Greenlee Plaza

October 1, 2009

Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Wednesday at the age of 28, deploying digital tools to draw a younger and less elite audience to classical music.

September 30, 2009

Daniel A. Olivas to moderate author’s panel for Latinos in Lotusland anthology

September 22, 2009

When the Border Lands on Your Front Door – “Visitors Guide to Arivaca” is a powerful, emotional and thought-provoking play at the Alexandria Hotel – LA

September 17, 2009

Armando Molina, co-artistic Director for Company of Angels, directs this September the nationally significant production of “Visitors Guide to Arivaca (Map Not to Scale) ” written by Evangeline Ordaz and produced by Marlene Forte and Xavi Moreno for Company of Angels. The play runs September 11 through October 4th at the Alexandria Hotel, dowtown LA.

September 15, 2009

Oscar Castillo Photography Show. Latino Book Fest. – Los Angeles

September 9, 2009

With Culture Clash, nothing is sacred except satire – Latino troupe prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, putting a modern slant on the ancient comedy of Aristophanes.

September 3, 2009

‘LOL! Latina on the Loose’ Opens September 25 at Los Angeles Theatre Center; World Premiere Comedy

August 18, 2009

Cultura Latina: LA’s longest standing Latino bookstore

Latino murals from downtown L.A. building up for sale – from the lobby of downtown’s Victor Clothing building on Broadway

August 16, 2009

Los Angeles Latino Film Festival Seeks Volunteers – Learn the film Industry by volunteering with the 13th annuall LALIFF team

In Los Angeles, Songs Without Borders – In clubs, bars, swap meets and concert halls, from car radios and ringing cellphones, you will hear corridos, old-time folk ballads in the banda and norteño styles

August 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based artist Ronald Llanos

July 28, 2009

Twitter en Español: LACMA the First Museum to Offer Bilingual Tweets

June 24, 2009

Marlene Forte puts on a new hat as the creative director of the famed theater group Company of Angels

Los Angeles Accordion Festival takes you on a musical journey from 1920’s Paris to Mexico and Louisiana

June 3, 2009

Hermilda Escobar Gaviria es la figura central de la obra Una vieja muy berraca, que los grupos de teatro Ta’yer y Sinergia ponen en escena desde este fin de semana en el Teatro Frida Khalo de Los Ángeles.

June 1, 2009

This looks awesome :: Sunday, June 7, 8:30 pm in Los Angeles, Gregorio Luke at the Ford, Life Size Murals will be at the Ford Amphitheatre’s outdoor stage featuring Diego Rivera (watch him talk a little about it)

March 3, 2009

With over 200 pieces of work from the 1930s-70s, “Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda” at UCLA’s Fowler Museum is a stunning retrospective and the first for the famed silversmith.

February 16, 2009

It’s a Bird, It’s a Chupacabra, It’s Lucha Va Voom! – Los Angeles

January 28, 2009

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic will begin their first season together with a free concert at the Hollywood Bowl to introduce classical music’s current it-boy to the city.

December 23, 2008

La ciudad invitada de la FIL de Guadalajara 2009 es Los Ángeles – Estados Unidos es ya un país hispanoparlante

December 10, 2008

My Abuelita was One Talented Mujer – Multi-Cultural Chicano musical history in Southern California with classical music Indianist composer and Chicana pianists in LA

December 2, 2008

Dia de Los Muertos may have come and gone this year, but the spirit of the holiday lives on at the Autry National Center of the American West as part of the “Bold Caballeros y Noble Bandidas” exhibition – Los Angeles

Western Union Honors Los Angeles Hispanic Community, Unveils Artistic Mural

November 3, 2008

Latino vibe at UCLA’s Fowler Museum

September 10, 2008

Art thief in L.A swipes Diego Rivera work and others worth millions

September 9, 2008

El Sereno instrument-maker carves out a niche – Cesar Augusto Castro Gonzalez started learning folkloric music and making the instruments as a youth in his native Veracruz, Mexico.

September 8, 2008

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels opens its doors to mariachi camp – Los Angeles

August 20, 2008

Latino Ceramists at The Folk Tree – The exhibit is a cross section of work created by Los Angeles area latino artists in varying stages of their careers.

August 17, 2008

Gregorio Luke takes Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture post

July 30, 2008

Mexican Nostalgia Takes Over Los Angeles With ‘100 Years of Mexican Music’

July 22, 2008

LAXART Presents the Debut of Miguel Angel Rios’ Video Crudo

July 17, 2008

Spanish adaptation of ‘Wizard of Oz’ comes to Lynwood High – Los Angeles

July 10, 2008

East L.A. art center will need a new home

June 17, 2008

Cheech Marin’s Chicano art at LACMA – Los Angeles

June 12, 2008

Cubans Wifredo Lam and Carlos Luna showcased at Museum of Latin American Art – Los Angeles

June 2, 2008

“Zocaloc Productions: An Arts and Music Movement”

‘Conscientious Projector: Photographs by Maria Teresa Fernandez’ – The Armory Center for the Arts at Pasadena exhibition focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border fence.

Chino Hills artist Abel Izaguirre creates tiny tributes to his old home: South L.A. – The man who watched his brothers fall victim to the streets found refuge in art. Many of his Locsters — such as ‘Tattoo Tony’ — are real people depicted as toys.

May 27, 2008

South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards – Once predominantly African American, the area has seen an influx of Latino immigrants, along with their roosters, chickens and other barnyard beasts not typically part of the urban scene.

May 21, 2008

Lola Montes, 90; influential head of Spanish dance company – Los Angeles

May 6, 2008

A Latino institution struggles to stay open – Rueben Martinez, owner of Libreria Martinez Books and Art Gallery in Santa Ana, might have to close his shop by year’s end despite the store’s renown as one of the nation’s largest Latino-themed bookstores.

April 28, 2008

A rediscovering of East L.A.’s core – Latino artists help revamp a place where the community (and freeways) intersects.

Lost Art Of The OC and The Lemon Street Murals – Fullerton, California

April 21, 2008

Painting over O.C.’s Latino past – A move in Fullerton to obliterate Chicano murals is typical for Orange County.

April 16, 2008

Of Mice and Men Laborers Will Be Latino in Pasadena Playhouse’s Fresh Look at Classic

April 7, 2008

Chicano art, beyond rebellion – ‘Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement’ provides a rare showcase at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

April 1, 2008

LACMA Exhibition Showcases Provocative Artworks Created After the Chicano Movement

March 20, 2008

Gisela Colón: Kinetic Light Opening at LS Contemporary

March 11, 2008

Tomás Rivera Conference Honors Painter, Poet – Alfredo Arreguín and author Lauro Flores

February 19, 2008

La Bloga: Oedipus the Pinto

February 14, 2008

Museum exhibits explore heritage of Afro-Mexicans – California African American Museum in Los Angeles.

February 6, 2008

Playing to Latino audiences – First-class theaters are planned for inner-city areas – Los Angeles

January 30, 2008

Latino Street Fiction Hits L.A. – Urbano Publishing signs local author David Bueno Hill

January 23, 2008

Chicano/Chicana Life Across America Exhibition at the Muzeo Museum in Anaheim « THE LOS ANGELES EASTSIDE SCENE

January 16, 2008

Chicano Art Panel at the Getty – Los Angeles

January 10, 2008

Maintaining a vibrant passion amid lackluster sales of crafts – the Folk Tree in Pasadena

January 7, 2008

End of Mexican-American War to be marked – Los Angeles

January 2, 2008

Laura Aguilar & Delilah Montoya, Natural Forces: Against Type

December 10, 2007

Marcos Loya has gone from a rough childhood to a magic career – A kid marked for prison or grunt work surprised everyone by becoming a world-class composer and the musical force behind SCR’s ‘La Posada Mágica.’

November 25, 2007

Rebel with many cause – After nearly four decades, Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin remains an artist for justice – Pasadena

Lowrider culture gets high profile – L.A. museum’s exhibition looks at cars’ beauty and significance – “La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels.”

November 5, 2007

Dearly departed return in spirit at Dia de los Muertos festivities – Los Angeles

October 16, 2007

Bolivian Troupe’s En Un Sol Amarillo to Rise in Los Angeles

October 10, 2007

Long Beach groups help preserve Mexico’s dancing traditions

October 4, 2007

Chicano Secret Service at Highways – Santa Monica

September 25, 2007

Latina Conductor Brings Music to the Masses – Sonia Marie de León de Vega

September 24, 2007

The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival Partners with Home Media Magazine to Host Premier Industry Event Oct. 9

September 17, 2007

Now Starring as Cesar Chavez – Actor and singer Danny Bolero playing to standing room only houses at the NOHO Arts Center through November 4

September 9, 2007

Exhibit reflects on how the Latin West was won – Los Angeles County Museum of Art – epic-size exhibition “The Arts in Latin America: 1492-1820.”

Latina Dance Project offers politically aware ‘Coyolxauhqui’ – Los Angeles

August 21, 2007

Cine Latinoamericano: Celebraci ón de Fin de Semana en LACMA – Viernes, 24 de agosto al domingo, 26 de agosto – Los Angeles

July 26, 2007

Tony Plana Stars in Havana Bourgeois August 10

Spanish Eyes at the L. A. Opera

July 23, 2007

Culture Clash’s ‘Zorro in Hell’ gives Montalbán Theatre a shot in the arm. – Los Angeles

July 17, 2007

La Bloga: GRONK and MAX BENAVIDEZ at CARNEGIE ART MUSEUM

11th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) – October 7-14, 2007 € ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, CA

July 12, 2007

Race and Rhythm’s “Frida” @ The Frida Kahlo Theater, Los Angeles

June 3, 2007

The Bluebird Art House presents Crossing the Line”¦ Echoes at the Threshold of Abstraction: An Exhibition of Abstract and Figurative Paintings by Pola Lopez. – June 9th, 2007 : July 7th, 2007 – Whittier, California

April 3, 2007

Riverside veteran finds passion for art after pain of war – Simon Gonzalez

March 26, 2007

Tortilla art in L.A. – Joe Bravo’s exhibition at an Olvera Street facility is drawing attention. – Los Angeles

March 5, 2007

Luis J. Rodriguez: Tia Chuchas has Moved — Were not Closed

January 24, 2007

Tequila Don Julio and The Mexican Museum Present Nuevo Arte: Coleccion Tequila Don Julio – A National Traveling Art Exhibition Featuring Mexican and Mexican-American Artists

January 21, 2007

Luis J. Rodriguez: Updates on Tia Chuchas Move and other Matters

January 17, 2007

At Tijuana Show Opening, Life More Interesting Than Art – Santa Monica Museum of Art

January 10, 2007

La Bloga: Help Tia Chuchas

December 15, 2006

PASADENA SYMPHONY TO PRESENT LATINO SINFONICA, THANKS TO A $50,000 GRANT FROM THE IRVINE FOUNDATION

December 11, 2006

Lessons from the `maestro’ – Los Angeles