Discussion on LACMA

The Los Angels County Museum of Art (LAMA) is an art museum in Los Angels, California. LACMA is situated on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles (George, 1998).

LACMA is the largest museum in the western region of Los Angels and it receives close to one million people in a year. Its holding includes more than 100,000 works revealing the history of art from old days to the present. The museum also features films and concerts throughout the year (George, 1998).

Angels County Museum of Art was established in1961.LACMA was part of the Los Angels Museum of History, Science and Art founded in 1910 in Exposition Park near the University of Southern California (George, 1998).

When I visited the museum there was an exhibition taking place. It was a film, an historical work. The event was well organized and prepared for because it attracted many visitors who were anxious to learn more about the events that took place many years ago (George, 1998).

It was ‘Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987’. It was the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (Jenks, 2003). Asco (1972-1987) began as a tight-knit core group of artist from East Los Angels composed of Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie Herron, and Patassi Valdez. Taking their name from the forceful Spanish word for disgust and nausea (Jenks, 2003). Asco used performance, public art and multimedia to respond to social and political turbulence in Los Angels and beyond. Asco remained active until the mid-1980s, contracting and expanding to include Diane Gamboa, Sean Carrilo, Daniel J. Martinez and Teddy Sandoval among others (Dieking, 1998).

The event brought some interest me about the culture. In that virtually everything Asco and its collaborators undertook it gathered (Dieking, 1998). Also it featured non presenting of full historical narrative. (“Asco and the Politics of Revulsion” come closest) .

Personally I enjoyed the exhibition because I came to learn a lot out of it about culture. I also do hope that other people would have definitely gained something out of the event. All of us after the event will find a good reason to appreciate our cultures and keep them.