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Islamic influence on Western architecture is charted in Diana Darke's "Stealing from the Saracens."

Private philanthropy leaves arts institutions at the mercy of patrons. It's time to increase public funding for the arts.

Private philanthropy leaves arts institutions at the mercy of patrons. It's time to increase public funding for the arts.

Print Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, as well as the paper’s unofficial northern Peruvian cumbia ambassador, here with the week’s essential culture news. Making the Latino central Chon Noriega has led UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, an academic hub that was launched in the late 1960s, and that has been key to archiving Chicano historical documents, producing original scholarship and publications, and commissioning oral histories of important artists, activists and political figures. After 19 years, he is stepping down from that rol...

Hoffman said Coates has received more acclaim in Europe than she has in her native United States. Having her work published in Edition Peters is giving Coates recognition that is "far overdue," Hoffman said. "She developed a particular form of music. It's not written in the manner of Mozart, Haydn or Beethoven. Some people loved it, some didn't. It's very different, very progressive, and is now becoming recognized by a new generation of people," he said. In 2014, Mark Swed, a music writer for the Los Angeles Times called Coates "a mesmerizing American symphonist" and "our last maverick." He s...