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How the Hammer Museum’s Diverse ‘Made in L.A.’ Biennial Expands the Artistic Canon
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOn a plaque at the Watts Towers Art Center, adjacent to the iconic spires built by Simon Rodia, is a...
How Mellon chief Elizabeth Alexander (and $500 million) changed the nature of the monuments we...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThanks to Elizabeth Alexander, the Mellon has committed $500 million to preserve, relocate and...
The 17 works of art you need to see in L.A. County
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTemporary shows that come through Southern California art institutions get a lot of the attention, but permanent collections are every museum's core. Art...
How the authors of 'South Central Noir' captured South L.A. and created a genre
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoContributing writers, by row, from top left: Tananarive Due, Gar Anthony Haywood and Naomi Hirahara;...
Amid 'concrete and trash,' a healing garden for violent crime survivors stands out
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn a densely populated Watts neighborhood desperately lacking green space, a Los Angeles garden is...
The most Instagrammable chapel in L.A. is now a historic landmark
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoSituated on a steep hillside on the Palos Verdes Peninsula with breathtaking views of the Pacific...
Sweet Alice Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris and meals to families
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoVice President Kamala Harris hands out broccoli at Big Sunday's 11th Annual Thanksgiving Stuffing...
'White Men Can't Jump': Jack Harlow's 'beautiful escape' from music in new version of 1992 hit movie
Yahoo News Canada· 1 year agoMore than 31 years after Ron Shelton's movie White Men Can't Jump was released in 1992, starring...
Hammer’s Hometown Heroes
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 3 months agoBy Pablo José Ramírez and Diana Nawi The Hammer Museum’s recent biennial Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living highlighted the work of 39 artists and groups...
Column: O.C. let its history rot. And the Tustin hangar fire is still burning
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe Tustin blimp hangars were Orange County's version of the Watts Towers: beloved architectural...