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Teena Apeles

Teena Apeles

Author and book editor Teena Apeles writes about art, culture, design, activism, and history, and edits books on an even wider range of subjects. She is the founder of the creative collective Narrated Objects, which produces books and events to showcase the diverse voices of the city of Los Angeles. Her latest book, "52 Things to Do in Los Angeles," will be available from Moon Travel Guides in early 2023.

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Lockheed's B-1 plant during wartime on Victory Place. Note the pedestrian underpass entrance (it's still there, but closed) at left. | Courtesy of Wes Clark
The advent of World War II marked an aviation-industry boom in Southern California. What’s left standing in the neighborhoods we now call home after the rise of aviation giants such as Lockheed, Douglas Aircraft and Northrop may surprise you.
Lockheed's B-1 plant during wartime on Victory Place. Note the pedestrian underpass entrance (it's still there, but closed) at left. | Courtesy of Wes Clark
What’s left standing in the neighborhoods we now call home after the rise of aviation giants in SoCal after WWII may surprise you.
Tuskegee P-51 Mustang at the Palm Springs Air Museum | Wikimedia Commons/Jwissick
Here’s a quick tour of some of SoCal’s aviation museums and their unique offerings.
Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, prepares to simulate a parachute drop into water during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. | Flickr/NASA Johnson/Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0)​
There have been numerous women on the ground who made NASA's journeys possible. The following women are just a fraction of the Asian Americans whose remarkable work continues to impact the investigation of worlds beyond our own.
Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, prepares to simulate a parachute drop into water during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. | Flickr/NASA Johnson/Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0)​
There have been numerous women on the ground who made NASA's journeys possible. The following women are just a fraction of the Asian Americans whose remarkable work continues to impact the investigation of worlds beyond our own.
Barry McGee, Todd James, and Stephen Powers, Street Market, Deitch Projects, New York, 2000 | Courtesy of Jeffrey Deitch
Jeffrey Deitch is brilliant, radical, odd, provocative, flashy, unqualified, overqualified — and he's helped shape tastes in contemporary art for four-plus decades. Here are some of his memorable exhibitions.
Patricia Valencia, Felicia Montes, and Martina Estrada Melendez at the National Day of Protest Against the Massacre in Chiapas, Los Angeles. January 2, 1998. | Arnoldo Vargas
Chicano and Mexican women of all ages featured in Vincent Price Art Museum's “Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology” represents a century of transnational resistance against oppression in its many forms.
Installation shot of "Bridges in a Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico" | Courtesy of AltaMed
At AltaMed Health Services Corporation, healthcare is going beyond just the physical. It has built an enviable Chicano art collection, which it displays at its clinics all around Southern California.
Kayamanan ng Lahi performs Singkil | Jorge Vismara
Kayamanan Ng Lahi (“Treasures of Our People”) is an acclaimed volunteer-run performing arts organization entering its 27th year of celebrating and teaching Philippine culture through dance and music.
Starman 1, Frida Kahlo Museum – Casa Azul courtyard, Coyoacán, Mexico, 1997. | Fernando Aceves, 2007
Fernando Aceves led the first generation of concert photographers in Mexico. His photographs of David Bowie during his only visit to Mexico 20 years ago reveals “the human Bowie, not the character,” without the outrageous makeup, hair, and costumes.
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