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Exhibition Detail Roberto Tejada Making Art in Tijuana Santa Monica Museum of Art Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90404 March 9th, 2007 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

> QUICK FACTS

EVENT TYPE:

Lecture

WEBSITE:

http://www.smmoa.org/

NEIGHBORHOOD:

santa monica/venice

EMAIL:

info@smmoa.org

PHONE:

310.586.6488

OPEN HOURS:

Tue-Sat 11-6

COST:

free

> DESCRIPTION

For some, the idea of "art" and "Tijuana" stops with a Velvet Elvis. For others, the city is a new hub of postmodernism. What is the real story of Tijuana's artistic tradition? What does it mean to make art in the US-Mexico border's biggest metropolis? UCSD art historian Roberto Tejada will lead a discussion with three innovative thinkers who relate to Tijuana and the border in very different ways: photographer Yvonne Venegas, architect and theorist Teddy Cruz, and Heriberto Yepez, author of Here is Tijuana!, poet, and professor of philosophy at the Autonomous University of Baja, California.

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