More Alma Lopez controversy
Orange County Weekly covers the controversy over Our Lady by Alma López and its rumored appearance at Fullerton Museum Center. Three weeks ago, the far-right Chicano nationalist website Aztlan.net complained that the museum planned to exhibit López's "sexually deviant" artwork (discussed here). The museum's director insists that Aztlan was mistaken — Our Lady was never part of the exhibition — and that the museum has safeguards to prevent offensive art from display. Not exactly a resounding defense of artistic integrity in the face of ideological fanaticism. OC Weekly comments:
Too bad. Felz went on to reveal that the museum would exhibit another Guadalupe-themed López work, María de Los Angeles. That piece—the Virgin fully clothed, generations of women looking on in wonder—looks like a promo for an Edward James Olmos-produced PBS special underscoring the all-American virtues of Latino family life.
This article includes a larger, higher-resolution jpeg of Our Lady than I've previously linked (click the "enlarge" button).
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