The Virgin Mary, Says One Artist, Is Getting Evicted By Gentrification
(ArtsJournal Music)

The artist, Nico Avina, is trying to alert Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights to what it’s losing as rising rents drive out its Latinx population – people, murals, and especially paintings of la Virgen de Guadalupe. That’s why he brings a foldable, 7-1/2-foot tall Virgin Mary with him all over the neighborhood.