MOAH's 'Golden Hour' gives a view of a less-examined California. Plus, how theater may function and an art project in support of skid row, in our weekly arts newsletter
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“Golden Hour” marks a posthumous reunion for Aguilar and Middlebrook . They were friends and colleagues in life, united by an interest in photography and the concerns of invisibility and representation.Advertisement Elsewhere, the show unearths the everyday in Los Angeles, a city that still remains a one-dimensional Hollywood set in the popular imagination.shows a man joyfully offering the camera a Black power salute. A more contemporary, black-and-white photograph byin the past), captures taqueros lost in their labors in the dim of night.
Particularly poignant, at a moment in which we find ourselves reconsidering the narratives that define our places, is a hypnotic 2010 video by filmmakertitled “7th and Alvarado,” which shows a band of Mexican revolutionaries materializing like ghosts on that street corner. It is Mexican history making its presence known — though not without its attendant complications: The revolutionaries, who gallop dramatically through the area on horseback, have with them a prisoner, and he is bound.
“Golden Hour: California Photography from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” is on view at the Museum of Art & History through May 21. Visits are currently by appointment via their website,