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As the Trump Administration threatens the Native arts ecosystem through defunding, I have a look at how the de Young's revamp of its Indigenous art galleries helps put the voices of California Indigenous communities front and center.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...
Museum’s Update Sends a Message: Native Artists Are Still Here
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As the Trump Administration threatens the Native arts ecosystem through defunding, I have a look at how the de Young's revamp of its Indigenous art galleries helps put the voices of California Indigenous communities front and center.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...
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“Valdez is a skilled painter poking at the dark recesses of the national psyche, grappling with the ways power is wielded, often by the state against its own citizens—which strikes a resonant note amid the ongoing depredations of the Trump regime.”
Me in @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Me in @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Close to the Punches | Carolina A. Miranda
Stand before Vincent Valdez’s paintings The City I (2015–2016) and The City II (2016) and you will find that you’ve been transported to a bluff
www.nybooks.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“Valdez is a skilled painter poking at the dark recesses of the national psyche, grappling with the ways power is wielded, often by the state against its own citizens—which strikes a resonant note amid the ongoing depredations of the Trump regime.”
Me in @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Me in @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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When the leader of the Lucas Museum went before the City Council to get the project approved, they talked big about the museum's educational mission. It appears that the talk was just talk.
This and other burning issues in this weeks Art Insider for @kcrw.com:
email.kcrw.com/the-jar-jar-...
This and other burning issues in this weeks Art Insider for @kcrw.com:
email.kcrw.com/the-jar-jar-...
June 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
When the leader of the Lucas Museum went before the City Council to get the project approved, they talked big about the museum's educational mission. It appears that the talk was just talk.
This and other burning issues in this weeks Art Insider for @kcrw.com:
email.kcrw.com/the-jar-jar-...
This and other burning issues in this weeks Art Insider for @kcrw.com:
email.kcrw.com/the-jar-jar-...
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Speaking of urbanistic duds, last week I wrote about the Grand LA and how its commercial spaces have been sloooow to be leased out. Although that is changing…
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Can Frank Gehry’s ‘Grand LA’ Make Downtown Feel Like a Neighborhood?
A major mixed-use development designed by Gehry introduced housing across from the architect’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. But retail has been slow to follow.
www.bloomberg.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Speaking of urbanistic duds, last week I wrote about the Grand LA and how its commercial spaces have been sloooow to be leased out. Although that is changing…
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Frank Gehry's Grand LA was supposed to bring a sense of "place" to the urbanistic mess that is Bunker Hill. For @bloomberg.com, I have a look at how that hasn't panned out.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Can Frank Gehry’s ‘Grand LA’ Make Downtown Feel Like a Neighborhood?
A major mixed-use development designed by Gehry introduced housing across from the architect’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. But retail has been slow to follow.
www.bloomberg.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Frank Gehry's Grand LA was supposed to bring a sense of "place" to the urbanistic mess that is Bunker Hill. For @bloomberg.com, I have a look at how that hasn't panned out.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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“The grotesque images that have emerged from CECOT, like the human zoos that preceded it, are about presenting a barely contained savagery, reinforcing the idea that some people don’t qualify as fully human.”
My latest in WaPo, on the cruel spectacle of CECOT:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
My latest in WaPo, on the cruel spectacle of CECOT:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Opinion | How a Salvadoran prison became a political human zoo
The spectacle is reminiscent of unfortunate exhibits at the 1904 World’s Fair.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“The grotesque images that have emerged from CECOT, like the human zoos that preceded it, are about presenting a barely contained savagery, reinforcing the idea that some people don’t qualify as fully human.”
My latest in WaPo, on the cruel spectacle of CECOT:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
My latest in WaPo, on the cruel spectacle of CECOT:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
April 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM