Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine features Valdez’s oil painting on a 1953 Good Humor ice cream truck portraying the forced removal of a predominantly Mexican American community in the late 1950s. In 2004, Cooder invited Valdez to collaborate and create a painting to align with his album “Chavez Ravine” (2005), a musical interpretation of the neighborhood’s history.
Recently acquired by LACMA, the work is a monument to a disturbing chapter in L.A. history and symbolizes struggles across the country about affordable housing, eminent domain, gentrification, and discrimination.
Now On View
Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine
Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and The Great Wall
The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector’s Cabinet and the Politics of Possession
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone
Matthew Barney: REPRESSIA (decline)
Artist Selects: Silke Otto-Knapp, The Living We Are Doing, Always Among Others
Yassi Mazandi: Language of the Birds
LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives (Collection III)
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
Mark Bradford: 150 Portrait Tone
Museum Hours
Monday and Tuesday: 11 am–6 pm
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 11 am–6 pm
Friday: 11 am–8 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10 am–7 pm
Events
Member Previews—Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine
Thu, Nov 9–Sat, 11 | Museum hours | BCAM | LACMA members only
Jazz at LACMA: Knick Smith Band
Fri, Nov 10 | 6 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza
Crafting Monuments: A Piñata-Making Workshop
Sat, Nov 11 | 10 am | Lincol Park Recreation Center
Boone Children's Gallery
Sat, Nov 11 | 11 am–5 pm | LACMA
Fiber Maker's Circle
Sun, Nov 12 | 12:30–3:30 pm | LACMA
Andell Family Sundays—Collecting Wonders (In Person)
Sun, Nov 12 | 12:30–3:30 pm | LACMA
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