Ladies and gentleman, the weekend. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and art historical dog paintings.
You down with NFT?
A single living artist. A major auction house. A sale that represented “a bold challenge to an entrenched system of representation by prominent art dealers.”
I’m not talking about last months’s auction at
Christie’s, in which the artist known as
Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) sold a digital collage linked to an
NFT token for a brain-blasting $69.3 million. (Though I’ll get to that in a minute.) Go back, instead, to the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. was disintegrating, the Dow was in freefall and Young British Artist
Welcome to impeachment week, in which we grow increasingly concerned about the fate of our fragile republic but also the aesthetics of Sen. Ted Cruz’s haircut. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, here with your weekly dose of culture news and hamburger dispatches:
Artistic legacies
Shortly after abandoning her religious vows in 1968,
Corita Kent produced a series of 29 prints called “Heroes and Sheroes” that honored political and civil rights figures she admired. The prints mark a moment of departure, when Kent is increasingly appropriating images from mass media and, unshackled from the Catholic Church, her critiques of the powerful become more overt.