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Print Architecture photographer Wayne Thom lived at the Bonaventure hotel for a week in 1977 as preparation for taking one of his most iconic images. To shoot the sculptural elegance of John Portman’s building, Thom woke at 4 a.m., positioned himself on the offramp of the 110 Freeway and readied to catch the sunrise. In the resulting photograph, the hotel’s cylindrical forms rise Oz-like from downtown Los Angeles, the curved facades reflecting the colors of dawn. “I light the building wit...

Print In the early 1980s, as AIDS was beginning its deadly tear, a Catholic priest told a radio audience in Boston that he sympathized with people who didn’t want to be around anyone who had the disease. Robert “Chip” Schooley about popped a vein. The young Harvard physician and infectious disease expert got in touch with the station and relayed a blunt message to the priest: If you ever make a comment like that again, I will reveal that the church is keeping priests who have AIDS out of...

By Samantha Pires on February 6, 2021 From left to right: Tatlin’s Tower, or Monument to the Third International; Einstein Tower, or Einsteinturm; Geisel Library of the University of California, San Diego; Weissenhof Estate; The Glass House; Rietveld Schröder Housed; Nakagin Capsule Tower; Bauhaus Building in Dessau Describing an architecture style as “modern” may inherently be a bit confusing. After ...

When it comes to science-based exhibitions, institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and the Mingei International Museum are not often the first places that come to mind. But in 2024, MCASD and Mingei, along with the La Jolla Historical Society, the San Diego Museum of Art and the UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities, will all unveil multifaceted, multitiered programming as part of the Getty Foundation’s “Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x L.A.” P...

While the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of screen time — Zoom teleconferencing, more Netflix than anyone thought possible and FaceTime as a way to socialize — it also seems to have brought out a lot of authors and other creatives in our own backyard. Here’s a look at the local books, murals and more of the past year, as well as the inventive ways that arts institutions have continued to provide programming during the pandemic. January Polar Bear Plunge: An estimated 400 people ...

It’s an unexpected sight on a campus dominated by big, bold buildings. UC San Diego erected four circus-like tents in its engineering quad, creating space for students to take classes when school resumes on Jan. 4. La Jolla’s sea breeze will ventilate the tents, helping fend off the coronavirus and enabling UCSD to increase its in-person enrollment to 7,400, up 800 from the fall, the university says. There also will be 1,000 more students in dorms. Six restaurants will start to open in a ne...