Posted on September 12th, 2010 by sricasea
Golden shovels used at the Sept. 8, 2010 groundbreaking ceremony for the Siqueiros Mural and Interpretive Center on L.A.’s historic Olvera Street. Photo by Mark Vallen ©.
Originally published at Mark Vallen’s Art for a Change blog on Sept. 11 2010.
The construction of the Siqueiros América Tropical Mural And Interpretive Center on Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles grows ever closer. Carol Jacques, Commission Vice President of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Authority, invited me to attend the historic groundbreaking ceremony for the Interpretive Center that took place on September 8, 2010, and as someone who has been writing in-depth coverage on this story for years, it was an opportunity I could not pass by.
The Director of the Getty Conservation
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Posted on July 1st, 2010 by admin
MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA AND THE GETTY
ANNOUNCE MAJOR INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC ART
PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION WILL CONSERVE
CONTROVERSIAL MURAL IN EL PUEBLO HISTORIC MONUMENT
Los Angeles — Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and Councilmember JoséHuizar today joined Deborah Marrow, Interim President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Timothy Whalen, Director of the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), and Joan Weinstein, Interim Director of the Getty Foundation, to announce a public-private collaboration to finalize conservation efforts on and provide public access to América Tropical, an internationally renowned “lost” mural located in the historic El Pueblo district of the City of Los Angeles.
The $7.8 million public-private investment ($3.95 million commitment from the Getty Foundation and $3.852 million in matching funds from the City of Los Angeles) will go … Read more
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