Tacos at Tiffany’s
Posted by michelle on 19 May 2008 at 07:51 am | Tagged as: art paparazzi
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art spent the last three years curating a massive show called Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement. The catalog is a beautiful, hard cover book that features primarily LA based artists with a couple of San Antonio troublemakers in the mix: Alejandro Diaz and . The show will travel to Mexico City, Berlin, Paris and New York (Rita Gonzalez, is this accurate?). Alejandro should be quite joyful these days, having recently been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award in the amount of $25,000. That’s a lot of tacos.
Other award winners included former Artpace resident, Wangechi Mutu and Houstinite Robert Pruitt. Congratulations!
[photo credit: courtesy A. Diaz via jameswagner.com]
Anonymous said…
1. artist
7. art lover
Apropos of the comment on the other blog, it would also be interesting to know how many of the artists reading & posting here have gallery representation in new york, but it may be too late for that.
There’s a new piston that’s going in, and it will be able to take the weight
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The show will be traveling to Mexico City (Museo Tamayo), Houston (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston), and New York (El Museo del Barrio and Americas Society) with other possible venues in Mexico.
Thanks for spreading the word!
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