New Label - NEWS ITEMS

Francis Luis Mora, Evening News - Subway Riders, 1914

One of the things I enjoyed about Facebook was that it gave me a place to share things I found in my reading.

Sometimes sharing a link was enough; sometimes there was more to say. So I am adding a new label to the cloud on the right side of the screen that will classify 'news items.'

Most of them are things that I'm just putting out there, but all of them will be things I think are interesting and I invite you to get in touch by email or text or whatever if there's one you want to talk about. And there's always the comments...

The first one is a story by Daniel Hernandez about the deportation of Oxacacan muralists (painters Dario Canul and Cosijoesa Cernas, who work under the name the Tlacolulokos) whose work was on view in the LA Central Library (link to story). Hernandez points out that the practice of artists and DJs and others int he cultural community working while traveling on a tourist visa is common, and its hard not to see the deportation of these artists as the capricious enforcement of a rule that is often overlooked. The work is amazing. You can see more about it in this story from last year in the LATimes.

a photo by Al Seib used in a story by Deborah Vankin in the LA Times 20 Sept. 2017.