A buckskin dress at the Art of the West exhibit. Photo Autry National Center
The Autry National Center in Los Angeles, California, has opened a permanent gallery. The first exhibit in the 4,000 square-foot Irene Helen Jones Parks Gallery of Art is called Art of the West. It features contemporary and historic pieces from Indian artists and other artists. "We should travel the harder, tougher road of telling the stories of the American West as they actually were lived and will continue to be …. with shades of gray and ambiguity, full of connectivity through space and time, and comprised of the good, bad and even sometimes the ugly," Rick West, the museum's director, said at a preview for the exhibit, The Los Angeles Times reported. Get the Story:
'Art of the West' inaugurates the Autry's new permanent gallery (The Los Angeles Times 6/15)
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