Proposed USC research facility revives worries of gentrification on L.A.'s Eastside
For some Eastside residents and organizers, a proposed facility at USC's Health Sciences cCampus in Boyle Heights is the latest example of gentrification.
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For some Eastside residents and organizers, a proposed facility at USC's Health Sciences cCampus in Boyle Heights is the latest example of gentrification.
For some Eastside residents and organizers, a proposed facility at USC’s Health Sciences cCampus in Boyle Heights is the latest example of gentrification.
“Heliotropo 37,” at Paris’s Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, is named after the address of Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico City studio, a place vibrantly outfitted with folk art and plants within a brick fortress designed by her son, Mauricio Rocha (he did the exhibition scenography, too). “Helio means light; tropo means something that goes around: It just so happens I’m on a street whose name perfectly corresponds with photography,” Iturbide marveled over Zoom while smoking from her couch. On view from February 12 to May 29, 2022, the survey spans two hundred images, pl...