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Retro ActiveL.A. County curator brings 60s Chicano movement into focusBy Jose GonzalezPublished on July 29, 2009 at 4:01amChicano, once a derisive word used against Mexico's lower classes, was transformed by Mexican-American activists of the 1960s into their own term of endearment and assertion of ethnic pride. The art that followed made a similar journey, and on Wednesday, August 5, Rita Gonzalez co-curator of the current Phoenix Art Museum show "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement" dishes about the subject during her "Spraypaint Curating: On Bringing Phantoms Into the Museum" lecture. Gonzalez, the assistant curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, oversaw the largest, most-comprehensive exhibition of Chicano art, which leans toward more experimental and conceptual work such as performance, photography, film/video, and multimedia pieces.
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