Announcement The exhibition shares two new sections of the public art mural on view for the first time, featuring moments from an era of collective action that still resonates today.

October 23, 2026 — 1 min read

Judy Baca, detail from the 1960s segment of the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural. Courtesy of the artist Judy Baca and the SPARC Archives.

One of California’s most culturally significant landmarks comes to the Skirball with the opening of The 1960s — A Generation on Fire: Judy Baca's Great Wall of Los Angeles featuring new, monumental murals that approach history as a living, contested, and shared narrative in which we all take part.

In 1974, Judy Baca conceived of the Great Wall as a monument to the people of California, featuring a visual history of ethnic peoples from prehistoric times to the 1950s.…