In our own backyard: photography by Rafael Cardenas

Visual arts
Rafael Cardenas, the Jalisco-born, Los Angeles-raised artist known for street photography, presents a selection of new works at the Vincent Price Art Museum in East Los Angeles. The works capture backyard scenes across the eastside of Los Angeles by Cardenas, who is widely recognized for his black and white photographs representing a cross section of ...

Showing & telling the difficult: Laura Aguilar @ Vincent Price Art Museum

Visual arts
The wonderful Vincent Price Art Museum on the campus of East Los Angeles College has as its Pacific Standard Time LA/LA exhibit, “Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell,” opening Sept 16, the first comprehensive retrospective of the challenging photographer’s works. A series of talks and community events accompanies the show. This exhibition tells the story of ...

Cheech, sans Chong, pairs with painter John Valadez

Visual arts
From our friends at the  Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College an invitation to join an afternoon of activity surrounding its current exhibition Santa Ana Condition: John Valadez (through December 7, 2013). A foremost collector of Chicano art, Cheech Marin, will be present in support of the Valadez show. .  1 pm book signing: Valadez ...

Vincent Price: “Shock” … and art

Film · Visual arts
A pretty decent selection of late-night movies — just what you need when you are strangely full of energy from about one till four am — is getting me through my post-China jet lag. Last night I whiled away the hours with “Shock,” a 1946 film noir starring horror guy Vincent Price as a dicey ...