... “Renaissance and Apocalypse: Notes on the Bay Area's Transsexual Arts Scene” sets the scene for the emergence of distinctively trans artists and art practices within a wider queer culture. Renaissance implies rebirth, and the text hints at pasts in which something like what we now call...

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... “Chapter 6: Globalizing Mexican Art” illustrates how inSITE facilitated the entrance of young Mexico City artists into the nascent global contemporary art industry, aiding the internationalization of the Mexican contemporary art scene through this new outpost in the frontera norte. It outlines...

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... While the 1992 uprising did little to alter the economic status quo, it did to some extent lift the torpid social atmosphere of the 1980s and galvanized the community's artists. The Leimert Park arts scene had been struggling to survive, upheld by a core of committed artists and small merchants...

... of the Mexican contemporary art scene through this new outpost in the frontera norte. It outlines a history of site-oriented art practice in twentieth-century Mexico and compares different approaches to site-oriented art practice in North Atlantic art worlds. The chapter closely dissects the work for the US...

... Chapter 1 looks at the groundbreaking art of Betye Saar, Charles White, and Melvin Edwards. Of interest is how their presence, activism, and artwork were catalytic forces in creating an art scene in Los Angeles and for African American artists from the late 1950s into the 1960s. Charles White...