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Essential Arts: How Paul Pescador uses cartoons to explore intimate and civic spaces

Print The weekend is young, and I’m feeling partial to patty melts and Bloody Marys (with gobs of horseradish, por please). I’m 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

As state restrictions drag on, pressure grows for California museums to reopen

The Broad Museum in Los Angeles Photo by Tu Tram Pham on Unsplash A year after the Covid-19 pandemic forced museums across the US to shut down, many are now greeting visitors at limited capacity after a loosening of wildly divergent state and city restrictions. California, however, has been an outlier: its museums have remained closed as they had been, with a few exceptions, since the first wave of Covid-19. Still, some relief seems to be on the horizon, as evidenced by Tuesday s announcement that San Francisco museums could reopen this week with limited attendance. At the end of January, Governor Gavin Newsom relaxed some of the state’s health safeguards, allowing restaurants to resume outdoor dining and other businesses such as zoos, gyms and even hair and nail salons to reopen at limited capacity while museums were firmly excluded.

Essential California: The earthquake that changed the state

For the record: 9:00 AM, Feb. 09, 2021The Loma Prieta earthquake was in 1989, not 1984. Fifty years ago this morning, millions of people were violently jolted awake just after 6 a.m. For 12 savage seconds, the ground shook. Overpass bridges tumbled into freeway lanes. Hospitals crumbled. The San Gabriel Mountains lurched several feet south. It was a shock and terror so immense that not all victims were felled by physical destruction eight of the 64 deaths attributed to Sylmar earthquake were caused by heart attacks. Parts of the northeast San Fernando Valley resembled a war zone. Advertisement The first quake was over before the clock hit 6:01 on Feb. 9, 1971, though the aftershocks would continue for years to come.

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