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SHARING AIR: Post pandemic thoughts on art, LACMA, and The Green New Deal

Spring is here—resurrection, liberation, vaccination. We re-emerge from the rubble of quarantine into fresh air—a little tentative and rattled. The breeze feels good against our unmasked faces. Landscapes have been leveled and reshuffled. There is lots more empty space, between people, on streets, in buildings, in communities. We are beamed photos from Mars and they …

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Lucita Hurtado: I LIVE I DIE I WILL BE REBORN at LACMA, to May 3, 2020

Lucita Hurtado with Allon Schoener, LACMA, February 15,  2020 Art criticism is supposed to be impersonal. However, I am going to violate the rules! Still vigorous, charming, and creative, Lucita Hurtado is 100 years old. Not to detract from her longevity, it is worth noting that a new paradigm is emerging of people in their …

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Architecture + Cinema + Hollywood

The work-in-progress of the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, designed by architect Renzo Piano, is scheduled for opening in 2019. In “Architecture + Cinema + Hollywood”, the three are connected through images of the museum’s construction at the present time, historic and contemporary examples of architecture, mementos from classic movies, metaphors of Hollywood, and segments from my previous …

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