Aaron Rose is an artist, writer, musician, film director and independent curator. He is co-curator of the forthcoming MOCA exhibition on street art and of the exhibition “Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture.” Before taking the stage to talk about the changing perceptions of street art in mainstream society, he sat down for our “In The Green Room” Q&A.
Archive for January, 2011
Patrick A. Polk
Posted By Zócalo On January 24, 2011Patrick A. Polk is curator of Latin American and Caribbean popular arts at the Fowler Museum at UCLA and a lecturer in the Department of World Art and Cultures at UCLA. Before taking the stage to talk about street art as a growing phenomenon, he sat down for our “In The Green Room” Q&A.
Rust as Gold Dust
Posted By Zócalo On January 24, 2011by Andrés Martinez
In a tribute to the National Football League’s nostalgia-tinged, size-doesn’t-matter, redistributive genius, Super Bowl XLV will pit the nation’s 152nd largest metropolitan area against its 22nd largest. Green Bay defeated Chicago yesterday to clinch the National Football Conference; Pittsburgh prevailed against the New York Jets in the AFC Championship…
A Forgotten Founder
Posted By Zócalo On January 21, 2011In his biography Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution, author Charles Rappleye chronicles the life of one of America’s lesser-known founding fathers. Morris was a brilliant financier and merchant who helped to finance much of the American Revolution, although ill-considered land speculation eventually placed him in debtors’ prison.
Guillermo del Toro
Posted By Zócalo On January 19, 2011Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican-born filmmaker who directed Hellboy, and Cronos, and the Oscar-nominated Pan’s Labyrinth, among other movies. He is known for his love of insects, monsters, and dark places. Before speaking to a packed theater at the Arclight Hollywood, del Toro sat down for Zócalo’s “In The Green Room” Q&A.




