Art of the Chicano Movement Opens at the Museo del Barrio

NEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio announced today that it will present Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement at its newly renovated galleries March 24 - May 9, 2010. The first major museum exhibition exploring the legacy of Chicano art in the United States in nearly two decades, this internationally traveling showcase is organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Chicano Studies Research Center of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and curated by Rita Gonzalez and Howard Fox of LACMA and Chon Noriega of the Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA. Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement will feature over 100 works in a wide variety of media by thirty artists including: Scoli Acosta, Margarita Cabrera, Juan Capistran, Sandra de la Loza, Alejandro Diaz, Nicóla Lopez, Harry Gamboa Jr., Patssi Valdez, Gronk (Glugio Gronk Nicandro), Carolyn Castaño, Adrian Esparza, Victor Estrada, C
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