It was New Year’s Day 2021, and Latasha Harlins would have been celebrating her 45th birthday.
The immense painting on the front of Algin Sutton Recreation Center in a neighborhood that many locals still call South-Central L.A. is the first public memorial to Latasha since she was fatally shot by a Korean-born merchant who’d accused her of stealing a bottle of orange juice.
“For a long time, I couldn’t look at her picture,” said Ruth Harlins, 79, as she looked up at the vast image of her late granddaughter. She’d taken Latasha’s photos down in her home because they were too painful to look at.
Photo: Mike Pickles for Tatler Hong Kong
The Huge Mountain (2011) by Lam Tung-pang and 54:10: Artist’s table (2011) by William Lim
The Lims have been fans of Hong Kong painter Lam Tung-pang for years. This piece,
The Huge Mountain, is one of the largest works in their donation to M+ it’s more than five metres long. “I’ve always liked how his work crosses between Chinese classical painting and contemporary art,” says William. “We bought this work from Hanart TZ Gallery, I think in 2012. One thing that really struck me was that there was a moon on the top of the mountain. I don’t know why, but I’ve always thought that moon was very beautiful.”
William S. Smith. Photo: Penske Media Corporation. January 29, 2021 at 9:33pm
After seven years as editor-in-chief of
Art in America, William S. Smith is departing the magazine to join Hong Kong’s new M+ museum, currently slated to open this fall after a series of postponements. There, Smith will work within the curatorial department and oversee the museum’s digital and editorial content.
Smith, who cofounded Triple Canopy in 2007, joined
Art in America in 2013 as an associate editor and in 2017 was promoted to the helm of the magazine, which was founded in 1913. During his editorship, the international monthly published issues themed around Indigenous artists, realism, and immersive art, and Smith himself wrote on a wide variety of subjects, including climate change, the KAWS enterprise, and the New York Museum of Modern Art’s 2019 renovations. His tenure also saw the acquisition of Art Media Holdings which owns
Greetings from our ongoing pandemic, where we’re all a little bit of Mads Mikkelsen in the Danish dramedy “Another Round.” I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, culture and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, rounding up the week’s essential art news and satirical architecture speak:
Minimalism, but make it tingle
For her graduate show at
UCLA in 1971,
Karen Carson presented a series of works that consisted of simple geometric pieces of fabric sometimes produced in two or three tones that were bound together by zippers. These were pinned to a wall and could be manipulated by viewers who were invited to open and close the zippers, changing the shape of the piece in the process.