Archive for January, 2011

Aaron Rose

Posted By Zócalo On January 24, 2011

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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.

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Patrick A. Polk

Posted By Zócalo On January 24, 2011

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Patrick 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.

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Rust as Gold Dust

Posted By Zócalo On January 24, 2011

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by 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…

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A Forgotten Founder

Posted By Zócalo On January 21, 2011

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In 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.

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Guillermo del Toro

Posted By Zócalo On January 19, 2011

Guillermo del Toro in the Green Room

Guillermo 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.

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How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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