Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
L.A.,CA





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The exhibition brings together a diverse and satisfying array of recent work. Sometimes the art is specific to questions of ethnic identity; often it's not. What's passing into history is an aesthetic that matured in the 1970s, produced by Mexican American artists with an eye toward articulation of Mexican American experience. A full generation later, what has arrived on the scene is something different -- an aesthetic produced by Mexican American artists with an eye toward articulating whatever they darn well please. Thirty-one artists -- most based here, some in Texas, New York and elsewhere -- are represented by 102 works. Some is derivative, but the show is gutsy (and correct) in asserting L.A. art's primacy for a significant slice of recent history (C.K.).