Siqueiros Mural Discovered

KCET aired this segment on their "Life & Times" program about the discovery by Luis C. Garza, Dave Tourje, Nobuyuki Hadeishi, José Luis Sedano, and others of the 24-by-19-foot "Street Meeting" mural painted in 1932 by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros at a now-defunct art school near MacArthur Park. It’s one of Los Angeles’ most important public artworks, and it vanished soon after it was created .
"Life and Times" was created and hosted by award-winning producer Val Zavala. First airing on February 28, 2005, this "Siqueiros Mural Discovered" segment was nominated for an EMMY Award later in the year during August of 2005. Earlier in the month, on January 9, 2005, Suzanne Muchnic wrote an article "They've barely scratched the surface" in the Los Angeles Times about the discovery (www.latimes.co.... This discovery was part of the decade-only arts project managed by CauseConnect and curated by Luis C. Garza, which led up to their exhibition at the Autry Museum entitled "Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied," September 24, 2010 through January 9, 2011.
While completing three murals in Los Angeles during 1932, renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros explored new techniques and experimented with perspective, all the while fomenting a new artistic and political aesthetic that took root in the city but eventually resulted in his near-deportation. The exhibition at the Autry, which featured more than 100 works and materials drawn from archives across the continent, explored this fertile period in the life and work of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.