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  • Broken News

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    Union Station Waiting Room 800 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Broken News Through October 29 Union Station Historic Waiting Room As part of public programming to recognize the 150th Anniversary of the Chinese Massacre of 1871 in downtown Los Angeles, the Chinese American Museum, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and Metro Art are co-presenting an exhibition titled Broken News in Union Station through October 29. A project by Adit Dhanushkodi, Broken News portrays the deeply troubling vein of anti-Chinese sentiment in the popular press – as relevant today as it was in 1871. The exhibition incorporates four original primary source newspaper headlines. For the purposes of the exhibition, Dhanuskodi also created two designed newspaper front pages to summarize the complete story, creating the composite from original primary sources. Cultural organizer Rosten Woo and historian Eugene Moy served as advisors on this exhibit, which is presented in conjunction with the 1871 Steering Committee of the LA Mayor’s Office Civic Memory Working Group.   El Pueblo Commission Vice President David Louie, Chinese American Museum Executive Director Michael Truong and Board President Gay Yuen, Broken News artist Adit Dhanushkodi, …

  • The Yellow Car and Los Angeles at Union Station

    CLOSING SOON: The Yellow Car and Los Angeles

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    Union Station Waiting Room 800 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    The Yellow Car and Los Angeles, an original exhibition organized by Metro Art and featuring materials sourced from Metro's Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive, highlights the Yellow Cars of Los Angeles Railway Corporation (or LARy, for short) and LA’s early buses to offer a fond look back at Los Angeles transit history. Together, these early rail and bus lines are the foundations which shaped the transit system Metro is restoring today.

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  • ON VIEW: Journeys Continued: LA Communities Through the Eyes of Artists

    Union Station 800 N. Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    ON VIEW THROUGH THE END OF 2024: Journeys Continued… LA Communities Through the Eyes of Artists builds on an exhibition presented in 2017 and focuses on neighborhoods and cities within Los Angeles County “through the eyes of artists.” Local artists capture the look and feel of each community from a personal perspective, highlighting special, surprising and/or lesser-known facets of that place. Neighborhood parks, street food vendors, family bicycle rides and local landmarks along daily commutes are among the subjects for these distinctive works of art.

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  • Journeys by Bike: Community Ride to Exposition Park

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    Union Station Ticketing Concourse 800 N. Alameda, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join Metro Art and Metro Bike Share for a special multimodal community ride celebrating Bike Month through art!

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