# Event Details - **Event Name**: Examining Truth and History in Museums - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 pm - **Event Description**: A discussion on the complex history of museums' collections and their significant role in shaping the narratives around race and identity.About this EventJoin us for a panel discussion on the complex history of museums' collections and their significant role in shaping the narratives around race and identity in the United States and Europe. Speakers will explore the issues raised in Ken Gonzales-Day’s work, with a focus on the Profiled and the Constellation series, offering a critical examination of both art and natural history museums’ collecting practices. The works in both of these series explore the collecting, research, and classification practices within Western museums, questioning the role of these institutions in the development of cultural beliefs about race and racial hierarchies in Europe and the U.S. Gonzales-Day's photographs challenge the traditional narratives within museums and how they interpret and present cultural artifacts.FEATURED SPEAKERS: is a Los Angeles-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice considers the historical construction of race and the limits of representational systems ranging from lynching photographs to educational museum displays. His widely exhibited Erased Lynching series (ongoing), along with the publication of (Duke University Press, 2006) transformed the understanding of racialized violence in the United States and raised awareness of the lynching of Latinos, Native Americans, Asians, and African-Americans in California, and to see these collective acts of violence within the larger history of policing, anti-immigration movements, and racial terror lynchings.Gonzales-Day received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and an MA from Hunter College in NYC. He was a Van Lier Fellow in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program and his work has been widely exhibited: including The J. Paul Getty Museum; LACMA; MOCA; Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; Eastman Museum, Rochester; The Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; The Palais de Tokyo, Paris; The New Museum, CUE Art Foundation, The Kitchen, Jack Shainmann, and El Museo in NYC; The Generali in Vienna; and Thomas Dane Gallery in London, among others. is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. distinguished professor of art history at the University of Virginia. A scholar and curator of modern and contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx art, she authored the award-winning article “‘Latinidad Is Cancelled’: Confronting an Anti-Black Construct” (2021). She curated the critically acclaimed exhibition Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, which toured five venues from 2017 to 2019, for the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative and was director for the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts, where she oversaw several exhibitions and convened major programs, including the 2023 conference Art, Gender, and Disability, which received major support from the Ford Foundation.Moderator:Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research at the Roski School of Art & Design, USC, and is a curator and scholar of contemporary art, performance, and feminist and sexuality studies. Recent publications include Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (2012); a volume co-edited with Erin Silver, Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (2016); and the edited special issue “On Trans/Performance” of “Performance Research” (2016). Jones’s catalogue Queer Communion: Ron Athey (2020), co-edited with Andy Campbell, and which accompanied a retrospective of Athey’s work at Participant Inc. (New York) and ICA (Los Angeles), was listed among Best Art Books 2020 in the New York Times. Her 2021 book, entitled In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance, explores the history of performance art and queer theory since the 1950s, from a queer feminist point of view. She is currently working on a book entitled Lifework: Against Cultural Capitalism, addressing creative life in the face of neoliberalism and structural racism in the Euro-American university and art complex.Image: Ken Gonzales-Day, 41 Objects Arranged by Color, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.USC is committed to making its events accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in this event, you may contact us at galiciam@usc.edu or 213-740-4561.Individuals requiring accommodations or auxiliary aids, such as sign language interpreters/real-time captioners and alternative format materials are asked to notify us at least seven days prior to the event. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide accommodations in an effective and timely manner - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/examining-truth-and-history-in-museums/100001592038081759 - **Event Categories**: art, sports, business, exhibitions, fine-arts, contests, conferences - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: USC Fisher Museum of Art - **lat**: 34.0188155 - **long**: -118.28731770000002 - **full address**: USC Fisher Museum of Art, 823 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Examining Truth and History in Museums - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/760ba135ac5a5f738d1d392cf9259cefa3c9072177b932e7a070330261d1772c-rimg-w740-h340-dc010101-gmir.jpg?v=1757269591 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Examining Truth and History in Museums being held? - **A:** Examining Truth and History in Museums takes place on Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 pm at USC Fisher Museum of Art, 823 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Examining Truth and History in Museums? - **A:** Examining Truth and History in Museums is organized by USC Fisher Museum of Art. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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