The Collective Power of the L.A. Art World
Los Angeles occupies a near-mythic place in the American psyche. But a different kind of creative tradition has shaped it from the ground up.
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Los Angeles occupies a near-mythic place in the American psyche. But a different kind of creative tradition has shaped it from the ground up.
The New York Times shows just how it's done.
A simple racism/anti-racism framework, Reed Jr. concludes, isnt adequate for making sense of the segregation era, and it certainly isnt up to the task of interpreting what has succeeded it or challenging the forms of inequality and injustice that persist.
“What about ‘O Pioneers!’ or ‘My Ántonia’?” asks the documentarian and author of the forthcoming photo book “Our America.” “For that matter, what about Gabriel García Márquez? We do not have a copyright on the word ‘American.’”
The political scientist recommends works by Tomasi di Lampedusa, Jonathan Haidt, and more