Autry National Center Presents Siqueiros in LA: Censorship Defied

LOS ANGELES, CA- The Autry National Center sheds new light on one of the world’s most influential artistic developments of the 20th century—and bring attention to a critical but little-known moment in the growth of the Los Angeles cultural scene—when it presents the new exhibition Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied from September 24, 2010 to January 9, 2011. Organized by the Autry National Center in partnership with Legacy & Legend Productions, with loans of artworks and materials from major public and private collections throughout the United States and Mexico, this groundbreaking exhibition focuses on a turning point in the career of David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), an artist who is world-famous (along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco) as one of the three great Mexican mural painters of the 20th century. During the course of a seven-month stay in Los Angeles in 1932, Siqueiros painted th

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