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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 manipu...

Closure for a Sister Disappeared Novelist Daniel Loedel recounts the story of his older half-sister Isabel, who was disappeared in Argentina during the Dirty War, “the period from 1976 to 1983 in which the U.S.-backed military dictatorship kidnapped and killed tens of thousands of supposed dissidents in the name of fighting off communism.” In this harrowing piece at Here we must pull back the curtain, listen to what’s behind the silence. First, the cultural reasons: Although Argentina’s military dictatorship technically lasted only seven years, from 1976 to 1983, they were the blood...

Two ‘Disappeared’ Argentine Exiles Fall in Love. One Is Already Dead. Buy Book ▾ By Benjamin Nugent By Daniel Loedel One of the signal achievements of contemporary Argentine fiction has been to take the country’s dark recent history — the state terrorism of the ’70s and ’80s, the subsequent economic crises that brutalized the poor — and channel it into ghost stories. In Mariana Enriquez’s short story “The Inn,” for instance, a tourist-town hotel that served as an army barracks during the dictatorship is haunted by spirits from the bad old...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Review: Dante at the ‘dirty war’: In ‘Hades, Argentina,’ a survivor faces his own complicity [Los Angeles Times] In a series of letters written during the German occupation of France, Albert Camus explained to a friend who had become a Nazi why, even when the Second World War was over, they could no longer be friends. He writes, “[Y]ou saw the injustice of our condition to the point of being willing to add to it.” In times of fascism, Camus observed that the divide was between those who were willing to add to another’s misery and those determined to...