Whitmore prusik. Photo by Wayne Merry. Image from Granite Frontiers: A Century of Yosemite Climbing on view June 12 to October 4, 2009.
Object Spotlight
The audio playing on our profile is a corrido called El Corrido Del Agrarísta by Trovadores Tamaulipecos, 1929. It will be featured as part of a listening station of songs about or inspired by the Mexican Revolution in our next exhibit Bold Caballeros y Noble Bandidas opening November 1. Read the lyrics in English and Spanish in our blog. Enjoy!
Movies
Autry in the News
Granite Frontiers featured on KTLA Channel 5 News with Gayle Anderson, Live from the Autry Voices of old California, preserved in wax by Larry Harnish, LA Times, L.A. Then and Now, California section.
A new exhibit at the Southwest Museum gives a sample of the hundreds of Spanish-language folk songs recorded a century ago.
Forgotten Voices and Songs of Old Los Angeles by Larry Harnish, LA Times, The Daily Mirror.
The forgotten voices and neglected songs of old California live at the Southwest Museum in several hundred small, round containers that look like nothing more than miniature oatmeal boxes.
Autry highlights rhinestone cowboys by Jeff Favre, Ventura County Star.
“In fact, the first piece in the show is a tapestry that is my tribute to Lankershim Boulevard,” said Stuart, referring to the street where tailor Nudie Cohn and the designers he mentored became the biggest influence on country music fashion in the 20th century
Autry museum getting $100 million makeover by Dana Bartholomew
Los Angeles Daily News
It'll look as red as a Sedona sunrise, as gray as a Death Valley divide and as clear as a Sierra stream.
Plans for a $100 million makeover of the National Autry Center call for a bold new museum rooted in the landscape of the West, topped with a glowing tower of translucent glass. Read the full article at the Daily News
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NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night at the Southwest Museum featuring The Photography of Peggy Fontenot
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Show and Sale: July 11–August 2, 2009
Meet Peggy Fontenot and join us for art, conversation, Mexican chocolate, and pan dulce on opening night, July 11, 2009. The Southwest Museum Store will also be open.
Influenced by her American Indian heritage, Fontenot photographs contemporary Native Americans to show that despite attempts by the American government to assimilate them, Indigenous people continue to thrive.
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027
About the Autry National Center
The Autry National Center is an intercultural history center formed from the merger of three important museums: the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West (formerly the Autry Museum of Western Heritage), and the Women of the West Museum.
The Autry National Center presents a wide variety of programs and events throughout the year for our visitors and members on diverse arts and cultures of the American West.
The Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West, and the Institute for the Study of the American West are the three public entities that enable the Autry National Center to use different lenses, curatorial specialization, and distinctive lines of intellectual inquiry to delve into the multifaceted study of the American West.
Autry National Center Exhibit Schedule
Sparkle and Twang: Marty Stuart’s American Musical Odyssey
Opens Friday, April 17, 2009
The exhibition tells the story of country music icon Marty Stuart's personal experiences with some of the most famous stars of American music, highlighting several of the greatest performers on the country, bluegrass, rockabilly, and Southern gospel scenes.
Granite Frontiers: A Century of Yosemite Climbing
Opens June 12, 2009
Meet the people who pioneered modern rock climbing and those who are taking it in incredible new directions: the determined free spirits, vagabonds, and visionaries who take part in one of the West’s last truly wild experiences. Granite Frontiers: A Century of Yosemite Climbing brings visitors to the edge of infinity to experience the exhilarating rush and harrowing perils of this most extreme of Western adventures.
2010 and beyond:
Home Lands: How Women Made the West
First Californians, Their History and Culture
Jews and the Making of Los Angeles (See the Los Angeles Jewish History myspace profile for more details on this exhibition.)
Katsinas in Hopi Life
Native American Diaspora
The Autry National Center is offering adults and children a whole new way to explore our galleries with audio tours. Visitors can choose the artifacts or works of art you want to learn more about and hear brief presentations, with quotes, music and sound effects to inspire a closer look. Families will find specially created scripts to help them talk about what they see, think about key moments in time and learn about the history of the American West.
Have a portable MP3 player? Download the Autry audio guides here as podcasts.
Each guide is categorized by initiative: Western Resources,
West as Crossroads, Native Voices, Violence & Justice, and
Museum Highlights.
Saving the Collection
Follow the preservation of a pair of moccasins at the Southwest Museum
Western History Workshops
Please join us for this series of stimulating scholarly seminars. Papers are distributed by e-mail two weeks prior to each seminar. To RSVP and receive a copy of the monthly paper, please e-mail saron@autrynationalcenter.org. Click here for a pdf file of upcoming Western History Workshop events.
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