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A digital work by an unknown artist just sold for $69 million, but don’t worry, you guys, the world is totally OK. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and NSFW NFT takes.
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Stuart Hall who led Los Angeles artist
Todd Gray to rethink the nature of his work. The prolific Jamaican-British theorist, who died in 2014, was noted for his profound examinations of power and the ways in which culture can be deployed to maintain a certain order. In resistance, he noted, there is also power.
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As a kid, Taylor Iman Jones saw “The Lion King” at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre three times. She and her family once sat in the first row of the mezzanine where, during the opening number, a colorful “bird” broke off from its pole, flew from the stage and settled at Jones’ feet.
“I screamed that thing could have landed anywhere, and it landed right in front of me,” she recalled excitedly, her expressions as vibrant as her iridescent makeup. “I wanted to keep it so badly, but then someone came up behind me and asked for it back. It was such a cool moment of real-life theater, like a glitch in the matrix of this big, spectacular show.”