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Roderick Sykes, co-founder of St Elmo Village in L A , dies
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Choose an album or two and play on repeat for the course of the pandemic as you contemplate the nature of time and space. That’s been one of my formulas for making it through the past year. My albums? Thao & the Get Down Stay Down’s “Temple” and “A Man Alive.” I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m here with all the essential culture news about openings as well as incredibly important paintings of beaver privates.
Open sesame
Last spring, as the reality began to dawn on all of us that the pandemic wasn’t going to be letting up any time soon, Times classical music critic
Getty and City of Los Angeles launch African American Historic Places Project
St. Elmo Village, est. 1969, Mid-City. Photo: Elizabeth Daniels, © J. Paul Getty Trust. St. Elmo Village, an artists enclave occupying a compound of ten small Craftsman bungalows in a colorful garden setting, was founded in 1969 by artists Roderick and Rozell Sykes as a place where children and adults could explore their creativity.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.- Getty and the City of Los Angeles announced today the Los Angeles African American Historic Places Project, an ambitious project to identify, protect and celebrate African American heritage within the city.
Historic preservation can be a powerful force in addressing social justice by empowering local communities to effect positive change. Despite comprehensive efforts over the years to record Los Angeles historic places, the citys historic designation programs do not yet reflect the depth and breadth of African American history. Just over three p
St. Elmo Village, founded in 1969 as an African American artists enclave occupying a compound of ten small Craftsmen bungalows in Los Angeles © J. Paul Getty Trust
Declaring the historical record woefully incomplete, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the city of Los Angeles today announced a three-year effort to identify, protect and celebrate local sites that are central to African American heritage.
Of the 1,200 places in Los Angeles designated as cultural or historic landmarks, the Getty and the city note, just over 3% are linked to African American heritage. “Having only about 40 feels well short of reflecting the totality and richness of African American heritage in the city,” says Ken Bernstein, principal city planner at the Los Angeles Department of City Planning and manager of its Office of Historic Resources (OHR), which is teaming with the Getty on the
Just 3% of L A landmarks are linked to Black history One project aims to change that
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