September 2011 Archives
Arts & Culture:
Spatialized sound, eye movement research, light sculpture, mediated images and an interactive dandelion are part of this week's LA media art scene.
Commentary:
I am angry that this stereotype is on a virtual loop, the "Chinese Driver", the Feminized Asian male, the fawning Asian Butterfly.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
By 1895, Riverside had the highest per capita income in America, thanks to the citrus industry.
Arts & Culture:
"Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s" by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp offers a fast-paced and often hilarious introduction to the origins of the Los Angeles art scene.
Movie Miento:
I'm worried. The internet is not a history book and if the book is dead, maybe so will be the exploits of the legendary East LA art group ASCO.
Commentary:
Faced with a storm of protest over the Interior Department's push for renewable energy development on public land in California, the Bureau of Land Management has taken a novel approach to managing public comment on controversial projects: don't allow any.
Arts & Culture:
Technicolor's Tom Burton describes the dazzling restoration of a celebrated 1902 silent film, "A Trip to the Moon," slated to screen Tuesday, September 6.
Commentary:
There is one collective and inescapable national question: Are we better? Ten years later, are we better?
Around SoCal:
Some urban loafing leads to an encounter with an artist and his muse
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