Local artists Chris Ramming and Rob Brill address tourists traveling to Marfa, which is in a COVID-19 hotspot and doesn’t have a hospital.
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Bright, Intimate Animations Relay Letters From Prison
The diaristic animations offer portraits of people grappling with their pasts, the weight of trauma, and the need for love.
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Required Reading
This week, trees communicate with one another, the new Billie Holiday documentary, maskless stress dreams, and more.
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At Bus Stops Around San Francisco, Radiant Photos of the City’s LGBTQ Communities
Marcela Pardo Ariza’s thoughtful intervention centers community and chosen family as generational roots within queer communities, one giving life to another.
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A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Los Angeles, Evanston, IL, and Troy, NY.
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Identifying Slut-Shaming, Racism, and Transphobia in the Byzantine World
In his new book, Roland Betancourt examines how stories of gender, race, and sexuality from the Byzantine world of the Eastern Mediterranean provide insight into the intersectionality that existed in the medieval world.
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Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for December 2020
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
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The Rise of Mobile Art, From the Renaissance to the Digital Anthropocene
The creation of digital artworks made to be displayed anywhere is the latest development of a process begun hundreds of years ago.
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Watching Whiteness Shift to Blue Via Nationalist Aesthetics
Since the 1950s policing has presented itself as a “thin blue line” against disorder — a dog-whistle connecting the Civil Rights Movement to the mobility of Black people and white fears about the loss of a permanent, racialized social hierarchy.
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“Hahahahahaha” Can Be No Laughing Matter on TikTok
How one South Asian popular song, which was recently popularized on TikTok, is raising questions about cultural appropriation online.
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On Twitter, Frogs Were Mostly Nazis, On TikTok, They’re Often Queer
How frogs, more recently seen as a symbol of hate on Twitter, are being queered by TikTok users.
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One Flew Over the TikTok Nest
A look at how some healthcare professionals on TikTok are using the platform to cultivate a healthy conversation about mental illness.