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An art project examines the objects police mistook for guns, plus sexual misconduct and racial reckonings at key cultural institutions.

A year after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, the questions that loom are thorny ones.

Print Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, as well as the paper’s unofficial northern Peruvian cumbia ambassador, here with the week’s essential culture news. Making the Latino central Chon Noriega has led UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, an academic hub that was launched in the late 1960s, and that has been key to archiving Chicano historical documents, producing original scholarship and publications, and commissioning oral histories of i...

On Thursday, the CDC announced a relaxation of mask guidelines. What does that mean for the arts in L.A.?

Thuc Nhi Nguyen, and it’s Friday, April 30. Here’s the latest on what’s happening with the coronavirus, plus ways to spend your weekend and a look at some of the week’s best stories. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Not long ago, finding an open vaccine appointme...

I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and it’s the weekend — which means it’s time for the week’s essential culture news.

Print Welcome to the Ooops I Forgot to Write the Newsletter edition of Essential Arts. I’m L.A. Times arts editor Craig Nakano filling in for columnist Carolina A. Miranda, who as you’ll see has been immersing herself in architectural solutions for people who are unhoused. This week has been bizzz-eee as California kicked its reopening into a higher gear, so there’s much to share. I’m sitting down to write at an hour when I’m usually in a seismic snore. My 2-year-old is asleep, the ...

Print Choose an album — or two — and play on repeat for the course of the pandemic as you contemplate the nature of time and space. That’s been one of my formulas for making it through the past year. My albums? Thao & the Get Down Stay Down’s “Temple” and “A Man Alive.” I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m here with all the essential culture news about openings — as well as incredibly important paintings of beaver priv...

Print We are slowly emerging from the pandemic, and it sure looks like there are a lot of things that need fixing. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news. The Echo Park shutdown Construction fence and police tape. That’s about all you’ll see this week if you pay a visit to Echo Park Lake. Not to mention a robust (to put it mildly) police presence, which, on a recent Sunday visit, had patrols circling th...

Print A digital work by an unknown artist just sold for $69 million, but don’t worry, you guys, the world is totally OK. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and NSFW NFT takes. Upside down worlds Stuart Hall who led Los Angeles artist Todd Gray to rethink the nature of his work. The prolific Jamaican-British theorist, who died in 2014, was noted for his profound examinations of power and the ways in w...