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Episode No. 634 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist\xa0Amalia Mesa-Bains.\xa0

The Phoenix Art Museum is presenting \u201cAmalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory,\u201d the first retrospective of the pioneering Chicana artist. The exhibition includes nearly 60 works including fourteen of Mesa-Bains\u2019 major installations. It was curated by Mar\xeda Esther Fern\xe1ndez and Laura E. P\xe9rez and is on view in Phoenix through February 25, 2024. The exhibition originated at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. The outstanding catalogue was published by BAMPFA in association with University of California Press. Amazon\xa0and\xa0Indiebound\xa0offer it for about $50.

Across a half-century,\xa0Mesa-Bains has foregrounded Chicana forms such as altares (home altars), ofrendas (offerings to the dead), descansos (roadside resting places), and capillas (home yard shrines) within contemporary art. Her work often spotlights domestic spaces and the construction of landscape in ways that highlight colonial erasure. Among the museums which have presented solo exhibitions of Mesa-Bains\u2019 work are the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

As promised on the program:

• Sandy Rodriguez on\xa0Episode No. 532.
• \u201cNew World Wunderkammer\u201d\xa0at the Fowler Museum.

For more images, see Episode No. 592.