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Day of the Dead, or also known as Día de Muertos, is a time for family and friends to remember and reunite with their late loved ones.

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The June 18th auction features the collection of Stuart and Phyllis Moldaw; the June 21st auction will be a signature Design for the Home and Garden auction.

Part of a year-end series revisiting subjects of some of our most popular arts articles of the year. For the art world, 2020 was the year that the Black Lives Matter movement spurred a deeper conversation about inclusion and equity, ultimately leading some museums to sell off works by certain artists — usually white, often male — ostensibly to diversify their permanent collections. While deaccessioning pieces from collections is not unheard of, museums have historically followed ethical gu...

When an art museum collects an artist’s work in depth, that’s a virtue, not a vice. No artist is known by a single work of art, major or minor; no cultural milieu deeply illuminated by one of this, one of that. But you wouldn’t know it from the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, which just tried to auction almost five dozen works from its permanent collection through an online e-commerce site. (Think Etsy with pretensions.) The cockamamie reasoning: It had too many examples by...

Print It’s the weekend and we’ll be hate-watching “Selena” for the really bad wigs. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, a culture columnist at the Los Angeles Times, I’m here with the week’s essential arts news: Chicano history recognized Chicano Moratorium, the massive East L.A. protest against the Vietnam War that ended in violence at the hands of sheriff’s deputies — and ultimately resulted in the deaths of three people, including Times columnist and KMEX news director The annivers...

Museum of Latin American Art defends auctioning dozens of works from its collection Deborah Vankin © (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) A view of the galleries at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) The Museum of Latin American Art, which put 59 artworks from its permanent collection on the auction block last weekend, defended the move Thursday as an attempt to diversify its holdings. The works joined other objects donated to the mus...

For the record: 11:33 AM, Dec. 11, 2020An earlier version of this post said the Palm Springs Art Museum is in Florida. It is in California. The deaccessioning of artworks from a museum’s permanent collection is widely and deeply frowned upon. Times critic Christopher Knight called MoLAA’s mass unloading of work by artists from Central and South America, Cuba, Mexico and the United States “a virtual fire sale of art” that was an “unprecedented bulk-removal of works from the museum’s ...