{"id":381983,"date":"2026-07-01T11:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381983\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:13:24","slug":"artworks-at-los-angeles-museums-that-question-american-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381983\/","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":381984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[27463,2308,12837,10360,154340,1508,48,52,51,154339,21437,154341,47,50,154338,49,27635,59175,5050,18120,1968],"class_list":["post-381983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-american","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-aug","tag-current-exhibition","tag-generation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lauren-ys","tag-lee","tag-lenticular-print-route-website","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-museum","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-painting","tag-technique","tag-video","tag-view","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}