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It’s the weekend and we’ll be hate-watching “Selena” for the really bad wigs. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, a culture columnist at the Los Angeles Times, I’m here with the week’s essential arts news:
Chicano history recognized
Chicano Moratorium, the massive East L.A. protest against the
Vietnam War that ended in violence at the hands of sheriff’s deputies and ultimately resulted in the deaths of three people, including Times columnist and KMEX news director
The anniversary was an important one. It landed in a year indelibly shaped by
Black Lives Matter protests and conversations about systemic racism and police brutality conversations that are just as relevant now as they were then. It was also an opportunity to retell the story of a decisive moment in Los Angeles, one that shaped its art and its culture, and to make present a piece of Chicano history that had never really saturated the broader public consciousness.
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The United States appears on the brink of a turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic with the apparently imminent authorization of a vaccine. But after the most vulnerable get their shots, who should be next in line?
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Nearing a Vaccine Turning Point
The U.S. could be as little as hours away from a turning point in the pandemic that has claimed more than 292,000 American lives and is still getting worse.
On Thursday, an influential panel of scientists endorsed a COVID-19 vaccine developed in record time by
Pfizer Inc. and its partner, BioNTech, and urged the Food and Drug Administration to make it available for use. If the FDA agrees, it could grant emergency use authorization as is widely expected as soon as today.
For the record:
11:33 AM, Dec. 11, 2020An earlier version of this post said the Palm Springs Art Museum is in Florida. It is in California.
The deaccessioning of artworks from a museum’s permanent collection is widely and deeply frowned upon. Times critic Christopher Knight called MoLAA’s mass unloading of work by artists from Central and South America, Cuba, Mexico and the United States “a virtual fire sale of art” that was an “unprecedented bulk-removal of works from the museum’s collection.”
MoLAA’s collection consisted of 1,333 objects, so the auction at which 44 of the 59 key works actually sold amounted to a reduction of about 3.3%.
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