Tag: Black Arts Council

• Artist a Day Challenge (6): The Disrupters

  

  Change is not always an organic process, sometimes it needs a little nudge. When it came to diverse cultural representation within Los Angeles museums in the 1960s, LACMA in particular needed a few nudges… and a good push toward progress. One late December evening on Wilshire Boulevard in 1968, a curious crowd formed around the Ahmanson’ building…

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  February 6, 2017

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, Art/Culture, black history, Los Angeles, Museums, Uncategorized

  Black Arts Council, Cecil Fergerson, Charles White, claude Booker, David Hammons, diversity, LACMA