Art
The First Koreatown in the US and the Activist Who Founded It
Pachappa Camp was founded by immigrant and activist Dosan Ahn Chang Ho, who was unjustly deported from the US in 1926, and later tortured in a Korean prison.
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Pippa Garner’s Household Inventions Reimagine the World
Garner appeared on the talk show circuit in the early 1980s as an eccentric pop culture figure who was never fully understood.
Art
Citizen 13660, a Graphic Memoir of Japanese Concentration Camps, Is an Understudied Masterpiece
Seeing Miné Okubo’s memoir makes the betrayal, humiliation, and downright misery suffered by countless Japanese Americans hit home in a way that no history textbook ever could.
Art
Searching for Hayao Miyazaki in the Details of His Films
Does the Academy Museum exhibition successfully plumb the depths of Miyazaki’s psyche?
Art
Accessibility Takes Center Stage in a Fashion Show
Mode Brut at the Museum of Craft and Design wants to change people’s perceptions of what fashion can be.
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Important "Arts and Crafts" Architecture Archive Gifted to the Huntington Library
The gift will allow the institution to incorporate the Greene brothers' archives into its online systems to make it searchable online.
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CalArts Cultivates an Environment of Artistic Experimentation and Free Creative Exploration
The institute awarded more than $25.7 million in scholarships to 95% of degree-seeking students this past academic year.
Books
California’s Radical and Multicultural Art History, No Longer Dismissed
Art historian Jenni Sorkin surveys the history of visual art in California from the early 20th century to the present.
Art
A Rare Look at a Korean Portraiture Tradition
An exhibition at the Asian Art Museum is only the latest step in a long journey to chart the development of Korean identity through art.
Guide
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for November 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
News
100+ Black Artists Will Take Over a Boulevard in South Los Angeles
Melvin Edwards, Maren Hassinger, and Alison Saar are among the artists kicking off the Destination Crenshaw initiative.
Art
The Cerebral Art of Wrestling
Wrestling is less a physical act than a psychological space in Mark Yang’s paintings.