Skirball Cultural Center presents “The 1960s — A Generation on Fire: Judy Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles”
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The exhibition shares two new sections of the public art mural on view for the first time, featuring moments from an era of collective action that still resonates today.
Judy Baca, detail from the 1960s segment of the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural. Courtesy of the artist Judy Baca and the SPARC Archives.
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