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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 the park at regular intervals as well as parked along the lake’s north end.
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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 which culture can be deployed to maintain a certain order. In resistance, he noted, there is also power.