"Baca, who was awarded the National Medal of Arts by former US president Joe Biden, is working with a team of artists to tell socially engaged stories on 12ft-tall panels. "I want to use public space to create ... consciousness about the presence of people who are often the majority of the population but who may not be represented in any visual way," she says."
"The title of the exhibition is taken from the Louis Armstrong song from 1967; it was ironic even then, coming out during a particularly tumultuous period. Forty-five works are on view throughout the theatre's labyrinthine spaces. The works were chosen by Udo Kittelmann, who likes to refer to himself as an "editor" rather than a curator, and run the gamut from early motion-picture history (Alice Guy-Blaché, Georges Méliès, Walt Disney) to contemporary works by Doug Aitken, Arthur Jafa and Bunny Rogers."
An extension of The Great Wall of Los Angeles documents Judith F. Baca's early development of the public mural and its memorialisation of 1970s political solidarity moments such as the Chicano Moratorium and the Kent State uprisings. Baca and a team of artists produce 12ft-tall panels to tell socially engaged stories, with Baca stressing the use of public space to surface underrepresented populations. The Variety Arts Theater hosts a major US presentation of the Julia Stoschek Foundation's time-based collection, featuring 45 works selected by Udo Kittelmann that range from early film history to contemporary video artists.
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