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The Museum of Neon Art in downtown L.A. will be reopening their doors this Saturday April 12th with an opening reception featuring 3 exhibits sure to make you hum along with the neon. Or at least make you crave a bottle of Orange Crush. A collection of soda pop signs, black and white photos of more signage by Tom Zimmerman, and a group exhibit of neon and kinetic art make up the ongoing exhibition which runs through June 29th.

The opening reception goes from 7-10pm and will feature musical performances by the Neon Hunter Collective and a special performance by Mike-the-Poet. Cost is $10 for non-members and free to MONA members. The Museum is located on 136 W. 4th street, LA 90013

Boasting “the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented at LACMA”, Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement features works created during the counterculture revolutions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition explores the more experimental tendencies within the Chicano art movement—ones oriented less toward painting and declarative polemical assertion than toward conceptual art, performance, film, photo- and media-based art, and “stealthy” artistic interventions in urban spaces. (I guess graffiti is still a bad word to the ears of L.A. county.) Paintings, sculptures, installations, conceptual and performance art, and inter-media works that incorporate film, digital, and sound art make up the museums offerings.

Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement runs from April 6, 2008 through September 1, 2008. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is located on 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. Admission is $12 for non-members and grants access to the other current exhibitions, members are free. On the second Tuesday of each month, general admission to the permanent galleries and non-ticketed exhibitions is free to all. After 5 pm, you may pay what you wish.