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<big><big>Tactics of Ephemerality: Interventionist Public Art in Los Angeles</big></big>
Tuesday, March 31
6:30 pm
Room 3-133
Chavoya will examine the influence of art collective Asco’s urban interventions and conceptual art practices on the work of LA-based artists, focusing particularly on the mobilization and performance of muralism and graffiti.
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C. Ondine Chavoya is Associate Professor in the Art Department and Latino Studies Program at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. In addition to curating exhibitions for the Williams Museum of Art, Chavoya has contributed writings on art and urban space in Southern California to numerous books and journals.</i></font></big></font></big><big><font
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</font></big><big><font face="Gill Sans"><big><big><b>HTC Forum Spring 2009: Outside</b></big></big>
<big>The HTC Forum this Spring explores the relationship between
landscape and urbanism, public/street art,
and the role of criticism from outside of traditional print media.</big>
Organized by the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and
Art at MIT with the generous support of the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund.</font></big>
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All lectures will be held at <big>6:30pm</big> in <big>3-133</big> at MIT, 77 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139, see <a
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Please see the attached poster. If you administer a list, please forward this to your students and faculty.</font></big></pre>
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Kate Brearley
Administrative Assistant
History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
Department of Architecture MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 3-303
Cambridge MA 02139
(617) 258-8439
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