Celebrate Community at The Broad with L.A. TACO and Patrick Martinez
Overview
Join us at The Broad for a special community celebration with L.A. TACO and Broad collection artist Patrick Martinez to celebrate what makes Los Angeles unique and what brings us together! Don’t miss DJ sets from Diego Fuego, Marvelouz, Deejay A.Z., and DJ Fondo, and your chance to support independent news media in L.A. Plus! Pick up a FREE limited-run poster featuring the neon artwork of Patrick Martinez with a very timely message: “LA MIGRACIÓN ES NATURAL.”
Then, join a conversation with three Angelinos, Patrick Martinez, L.A. TACO's Memo Torres, and recording artist Miguel, on how art, music, and journalism can enrich and define community in Los Angeles. Separate reservations to this event are required as space is limited. This conversation will be livestreamed on The Broad’s YouTube channel. Get Tickets
Hero image credits clockwise from top left: Marvelouz, photo courtesy of the artist; Photo courtesy of The Broad. Artwork Credit: Patrick Martinez, Migration is Natural, 2019, fabricated 2021. Neon. The Broad Art Foundation © Patrick Martinez; L.A. TACO logo; Miguel, photo courtesy of the artist
Your free general admission ticket includes same-day access to the event, The Broad’s rotating third floor collection galleries, and The Shop at The Broad. The museum’s first floor galleries will be closed for installation. Please book a separate ticket here if you want to attend the conversation between L.A. TACO's Memo Torres, Broad collection artist Patrick Martinez, and recording artist Miguel.
Tickets to this event do not include access to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) and must be booked separately.
To learn more and plan your trip, visit Know Before You Go & FAQ. Visitor policies are subject to change.
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L.A. TACO
L.A. TACO is Los Angeles’ independent, member-supported newsroom and cultural platform dedicated to celebrating and protecting the real Los Angeles: its people, food, art, and neighborhoods. Founded on the belief that Angelenos deserve media made by and for the people who actually live here, L.A. TACO works to document the city’s creativity and complexity with honesty, humor, and deep respect. As part of its ongoing “Free L.A.” membership campaign, L.A. TACO is growing a human-centered media movement that seeks to free Los Angeles from corporate control of its own story. The goal: to build a truly sustainable, independent local newsroom that covers every block and every taco spot and uplifts the communities that make this city thrive.
Memo Torres
Memo Torres is the Director of Engagement and a multimedia journalist for the James Beard award-winning L.A. TACO. He is also the host of the Daily Memo and writes for Apple Maps’ 'Where Memo Torres Eats in L.A.' You can see him on Netflix's Taco Chronicles and Pressure Cooker. You can hear him on KCRW’s 'Good Food' occasionally. He was a finalist for the Ruben Salazar Award for Latino journalists and a former third-generation landscaper.
Photo courtesy of the panelist
Patrick Martinez
Patrick Martinez (b. 1980, Pasadena, CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His neon sign works are fabricated to mirror street level commercial signage. They act as reminders, signs of protest or warnings. Some of the works are remixed to present words and phrases drawn from literary and oratorical sources. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul, and the Netherlands, and at venues including The Broad, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian NMAAHC, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Buffalo AKG Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Rollins Art Museum, the California African American Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and El Museo del Barrio, among others.
Miguel
Miguel Jontel Pimentel, known professionally as Miguel, is an American singer and songwriter who specializes in contemporary and alternative R&B. Born in San Pedro, California, Miguel started pursuing music at age 13. He signed with local label Drop Squad in 2000, then Black Ice in 2004. After Miguel signed with Jive Records in 2007 and released his debut album, All I Want Is You, in 2010. Since then he released four critically acclaimed albums and is continuing his chart-topping run with the recently released Caos.
Photo courtesy of the artist