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Curating Race: A Conversation on Curating Ethnically Specific Exhibitions

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Chon Noriega is a professor at the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, a director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and an adjunct curator at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He moderates this discussion on curating ethnically specific exhibitions, on the occasion of One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement at LACMA. With Malik Gaines, independent writer and performer, adjunct curator at LA><ART; Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator, Special Exhibitions, LACMA; and Karin Higa, adjunct senior curator of Art, JANM. 

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