January 2012 Archives
Arts & Culture:
Artist Brody Condon returns to Machine Project this Thursday night to present "Future Gestalt," a new performance described as a '70s group encounter session set in the far future.
Movie Miento:
This show's mix of Mexican, Chicano, and art by Charles and Ray Eames and Julius Schulman is a temporary vision of the possibilities of a Latino museum in Southern California.
Commentary:
Saturday's winds were an impressive reminder that for all the Coachella Valley's seeming domestication, despite our manicured lawns, fountains, and irrigated gardens, we still live in the desert.
Where We Are:
The regional connector is a big deal, but Metro's rail network has all the limitations of the history it's recreating.
Commentary:
The process designed to guard against special interests, and specifically their influence over legislators, has now been turned on its head and is all but controlled by those interests. In order to qualify an initiative for the ballot one needs money, not a good idea.
Where We Are:
Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs are a bad idea for finding our way home.
Commentary:
Johnny Otis is gone, but what he meant to black music and black consciousness should live forever.
Arts & Culture:
L.A. continues to be both the site and subject for innumerable artworks across the city, from a large-scale performance and public art festival to screenings featuring films about L.A., by L.A. filmmakers.
Commentary:
Living in a melting pot, we move about our space reflecting and mirroring one another, so as natural as it is to close our eyes when we sneeze, we habitually profile one another based on a so-called "cultural" assumption.
LA as Subject:
From the 1850s until the early twentieth century, the area now known as Chinatown was home to L.A.'s first barrio: Sonoratown.
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