{"id":769920,"date":"2026-06-30T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769920\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:05:15","slug":"artworks-at-los-angeles-museums-that-question-american-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769920\/","title":{"rendered":"Artworks at Los Angeles museums that question American identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Autry\u2019s current exhibition, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/theautry.org\/exhibitions\/life-liberty-and-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cLife, Liberty, and Los Angeles\u201d <\/a>is an excellent show that takes a deep regional dive pegged to its 250th American anniversary programming. Of all the pieces, See Lee\u2019s meticulously stitched \u201cHmong Story Cloth\u201d (circa 1980) is a poignant chronicle of making the journey to an unknown future in the United States. Utilizing the traditional paj ntaub embroidery format, the textile documents Lee\u2019s family fleeing war-torn Laos and resettling in Long Beach during the 1970s. The narrative unfolds in sequential sections depicting military violence at a chaotic crossing of the Mekong River; lower panels remember Thai refugee camps, a rescue airplane and a Greyhound bus. This visual testimony shares striking cross-currents with Latin American arpilleras and pa\u00f1os Chicanos, linking disparate diasporic traditions through the shared language of quietly political, deeply personal needlework \u2014 in this case, preserving a crucial chapter of Southeast Asian migration to Southern California. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f On view through Jan. 31, 2027 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Autry\u2019s current exhibition, \u201cLife, Liberty, and Los Angeles\u201d is an excellent show that takes a deep regional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[620,11480,4624,449,458,459,64,25357,63,366076,460,134,8818,366075,4755,366077,366074,33394,299445,446,26847,6624],"class_list":["post-769920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-american","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-aug","tag-australia","tag-current-exhibition","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-generation","tag-lauren-ys","tag-lee","tag-lenticular-print-route-website","tag-los-angeles-museum","tag-painting","tag-technique","tag-video","tag-view","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}