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Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and chihuahua imitators.
Our cartoon avatars
The
cartoon is endlessly malleable, able to serve as a staple of children’s programming even as it questions gender norms (e.g. Bugs Bunny) or functions as a proponent of U.S. foreign policy (may I introduce you to U.S. soft power ambassador Donald Duck?).
Artist
Paul Pescador is interested in cartoons for those reasons but for many others, too: their saturated color, their emotionality cartoons are pure melodrama and their ability to render bodies in inventive ways. “There is no more abstract version of the body than the cartoon,” says Pescador. “You shift a pencil line and you make something more curved, and you make it more feminine. It can make this remarkable c
May 5, 2021
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The occasion was “A Thousand Ways (Part Two): An Encounter,” the second offering in a trilogy by the experimental theater troupe 600 Highwaymen that is being presented by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance. The first installment, “A Phone Call,” took place in December by telephone. Two strangers were paired for a quasi-conversation, guided by the automated prompts of what sounded like Siri’s great-grandmother.
“His social media presence is very, very central to him being a dominant actor in U.S. politics at this time,” said Ramesh Srinivasan, a professor of information studies at UCLA and author of a book, “Beyond the Valley,” on the relationships between technology and politics.
The in-person tickets are sold out but don’t worry - there is a live stream to bring the spectacle straight to you.
If you want to be included as a friendly face in the physical audience too, send your mugshot to mugs@duckie.co.uk to be immortalised in cardboard.
A Rain Walk experience pack.
- Credit: Jemima Yong
2. Experience Packs
When: From May 17
A whole section of the 2021 programme is designed to be experienced come what may as the Festival was planned when the organisers did not know if it could go ahead.
This includes four packs to do at home in your own time:
The in-person tickets are sold out but don’t worry - there is a live stream to bring the spectacle straight to you.
If you want to be included as a friendly face in the physical audience too, send your mugshot to mugs@duckie.co.uk to be immortalised in cardboard.
A Rain Walk experience pack.
- Credit: Jemima Yong
2. Experience Packs
When: From May 17
A whole section of the 2021 programme is designed to be experienced come what may as the Festival was planned when the organisers did not know if it could go ahead.
This includes four packs to do at home in your own time:
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