Sarah Cascone February 21, 2025 You could make the case that Judy Baca, with her decades-long dedication to bringing socially engaged public art to the streets of Los Angeles, is the city’s most important artist of the last 50 years. But … Read More
In which an artist discusses making a particular work by Trina Calderón Artist Judy Baca created the mural The Great Wall of Los Angeles over five summers (between 1974 and 1983) with four hundred collaborators from the Social and Public Art Resource Center … Read More
Winner: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, for “Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold” at the Brooklyn Museum (September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024) Honorable Mention: Judith F. Baca, for “Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and the Great Wall” at Los Angeles County … Read More
ARTnews is pleased to announce the ARTnews Awards, a new editorial project honoring excellence in art achievements at US arts institutions. ARTnews Lifetime Achievement NOMINEES • Judith F. Baca • Charles Gaines • Joan Jonas • Kay WalkingStick https://www.artnews.com/p/artnews-awards-2024
Annika Petras, August 12, 2024 Began as an effort by artist Judith Baca to bring together neighborhoods and cultures of Los Angeles, “The Great Wall of Los Angeles” mural is to be extended to one mile in length. Already one … Read More
ArtSeenJuly/August 2018 By Gillian Sneed Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.—on view at Hunter College’s 205 Hudson and Leubsdorf galleries—is the first exhibition to excavate the understudied experimental practices and exchanges of a generation of queer Chicanx artists in Southern California … Read More
by Gabriel Arizon, San Fernando Valley Sun/El SolJuly 31, 2024 A pedestrian bridge was installed over the Tujunga Flood Control Channel on Thursday, July 25, that once completed, will provide community members a better view of the San Fernando Valley landmark … Read More
By Kristopher Gee Los Angeles PUBLISHED 6:00 AM PT Jul. 23, 2024 LOS ANGELES — Artist Judy Baca and a team of artists from the Social and Public Art Resource Center, also known as SPARC, have been working inside LACMA’s gallery space … Read More
NATIONAL 1:30PM JULY 04, 2024 by A Martínez Listen to the audio clip here: 0:00/7:17: https://www.wfdd.org/story/half-mile-long-mural-los-angeles-celebrates-history-california Transcript A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: On this Fourth of July, we bring you a story about a celebration of American history. One of the world’s largest … Read More
A lecture by Ignacio Darnaude at the Museum of Latin American Art highlighted how renowned Latin American artists, such as Frida Kahlo and Claudio Bravo, as well as Chicanx artists like Carlos Almaraz and Joey Terrill, created astonishing queer imagery … Read More