{"id":463231,"date":"2026-09-14T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463231\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:20:06","slug":"laura-aguilar-day-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463231\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Aguilar: Day of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drawn from recent acquisitions from Laura Aguilar\u2019s estate, \u201cLaura Aguilar: Day of the Dead\u201d presents photographs made from 1984 to 1992 documenting D\u00eda de los Muertos celebrations in Los Angeles.<br \/>Raised in the San Gabriel Valley, Laura Aguilar created a range of distinctive photographs during the 1980s through the early 2000s that reflect her Chicana, queer identity and the experiences of her friends in the LGBTQ communities.<\/p>\n<p>Ranging from public celebrations to staged D\u00eda de los Muertos scenes inside homes, the photographs in Aguilar\u2019s Day of the Dead series embrace Mexican American culture and reveal a connected artistic community in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>An ofrenda (altar) dedicated to Aguilar anchors the exhibition. Designed by Sybil Venegas and Christopher Velasco, co-trustees of the Laura Aguilar estate, the installation reflects an integral D\u00eda de los Muertos tradition of honoring ancestors. The ofrenda\u2019s elements relate to Aguilar\u2019s connections to the land, community, family, and photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drawn from recent acquisitions from Laura Aguilar\u2019s estate, \u201cLaura Aguilar: Day of the Dead\u201d presents photographs made from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64645,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-463231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-art-shows-galleries","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463231","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=463231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}