Closed Nearly a Year, Empty Museums in Los Angeles Struggle
While many museums around the country have resumed operations, those in Los Angeles remain an exception. They have been shut since March.
Los Angeles museum-goers have to make do with the great outdoors, with indoor installations closed since last March. “Levitated Mass” at Resnick North Lawn at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is by Michael Heizer.Credit.Philip Cheung for The New York Times
Feb. 10, 2021
LOS ANGELES Fulton Leroy Washington (known as Mr. Wash), who began to paint while serving time for a nonviolent drug offense, was looking forward to being part of the Hammer Museum’s biennial his first museum show before the pandemic forced the doors closed a few months before the exhibition was to open. “I started having excitement build up,” Washington said. “Then disappointment set in.”
Sweetheart candy hearts are seen on the shelf at the To The Moon Marketplace on January 29, 2019, in Wilton Manors, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Listen to tales of love and heartbreak. Learn to cook vegan coconut flan. Watch stories of love and friendship at the Reel Love Film Fest. Listen to a panel discussion about the Black women of rock and roll. Kick back at a screening of
Minari, the story of a Korean American family that moves to an Arkansas farm. Bite into a half-off pizza deal on National Pizza Day (Tuesday, Feb. 9).
Monday, Feb. 8; 7:30
February StorySLAM: Love Hurts
Greetings from our ongoing pandemic, where we’re all a little bit of Mads Mikkelsen in the Danish dramedy “Another Round.” I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, culture and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, rounding up the week’s essential art news and satirical architecture speak:
Minimalism, but make it tingle
For her graduate show at
UCLA in 1971,
Karen Carson presented a series of works that consisted of simple geometric pieces of fabric sometimes produced in two or three tones that were bound together by zippers. These were pinned to a wall and could be manipulated by viewers who were invited to open and close the zippers, changing the shape of the piece in the process.
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California appears to have pushed through the worst of its calamitous winter surge, with coronavirus case counts and hospitalization numbers now on the decline. However, while it’s clear that Californians have managed to bend the curve, we are far from in the clear.
The pandemic has also brutally battered the state economy, with the unemployment rate spiking in December. Much of that job loss was concentrated in the leisure and hospitality sector, which has been hit particularly hard by stay-at-home orders. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to lift the stay-at-home order could hasten the state’s economic recovery, but at what cost?
Senate Majority Leader
Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the theory that the Constitution prohibits a trial of a former official is “flat-out wrong by every frame of analysis.” He pointed out that the Constitution allows the Senate to not only remove an impeached official from office, but also bar him or her from holding future office.
Though many GOP lawmakers have condemned Trump’s actions in inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the party has coalesced around the idea that impeaching a former president would be improper. Moreover, there is political calculus involved. Trump remains a dominant figure among Republican voters, candidates and officials beyond the Beltway, even as the party clashes over whether remaining loyal to him will help or hurt in the long run.