Art exhibit traces Mexican influence in Los Angeles

"Mex/LA: `Mexican' Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985," the exhibit opening today at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, looks at the relationship between the city and Mexican art - through the work of fabled Mexican muralists such as Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siquieros to fashion designs, paintings, sculpture, photographs, films and even to what the exhibit's curator, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, calls "the most beautiful car of all time."

"Mex/LA" runs through Jan. 29.