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Siqueiros Online Video Stream

ByMark Vallen

An online streaming video is now available for Siqueiros: The Art of Censorship, a recent speakers forum about David Alfaro Siqueiros, his murals, Los Angeles history, and public art. Held last November 9th, 2006, at the Los Angeles Times Harry Chandler Auditorium, the forum was attended by some 300 persons and recorded by L.A. public television station, Channel 36 – who makes the video stream available from their website.

Speakers included Luis Garza – the instigator behind the future exhibition Legacy & Legend: Siqueiros & America Tropical-Censorship Defied, Judith F. Baca – muralist and founder of SPARC (the Social and Public Art Resource Center in Venice, California), William F. Deverell – director of the Huntington/USC Institute on California and the West, Suzanne Muchnic – Los Angeles Times art writer, and Patt Morrison – writer and columnist. To view the video, go to: www.la36.org/arts.

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