[THE ART NEWSPAPER] Judy Baca turns LACMA into her studio as she charts the history of Los Angeles
By Jori Finkel | 1 March 2024
A feminist who muscled her way into the Mexican muralist tradition, Judy Baca tends to work outside of museum spaces. She created the celebrated mural known as The Great Wall of Los Angeles on site at the Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River in North Hollywood, in the 1970s and 80s. Now she is doing a new chapter of The Great Wall in an unlikely space: the Resnick Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma), where visitors can watch Baca and her crew paint sections of a 350ft panel of fabric stretched out across the Renzo Piano-designed exhibition hall.