2020: A masked guy puts lasagna in your trunk and then you drive away.
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Carolina A. Miranda
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My mom's neighbor went to a Christmas gathering for which the hostess asked that everyone be tested. One woman tested positive and lied about her results — and gave the majority of the people at the gathering COVID, including some older folks.
This is beyond despicable.
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Since everyone keeps asking: she admitted to lying and apologized after folks started testing positive a few days after.
Los Espookys has been cancelled. 😢The show "gave us a world in which Latinos existed only in relation to themselves, not as satellites orbiting the United States."
I pen an appreciation:
Kamala’s face when Pence is talking is the same face my mother made whenever I was explaining why I didn’t make curfew.
Art historians: But which early 20th century European artist "invented" abstraction?
Meanwhile, Incas in the 16th c.:
Art world realllly needs to come up with merch that isn’t tote bags.
In case anyone was wondering what the most idiotic piece of design in the new millennium was.
"If we’re picking sides here, I stand with the capybara comrades."
“Video on social media shows her urging an officer to find her attackers before they left. Officers wouldn’t even look at the video Nibo had taken on her phone for at least 20 minutes.”
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Black woman describes terrifying attack by Trump mob in L.A.: 'I’m thinking I’m dead' latimes.com/california/sto
I haven't seen M3gan but she really gives off Hollywood publicist vibes. The kind who gives you 15 minutes to conduct an interview for a major profile and then at Minute 11 loudly announces: "LAST QUESTION."
Pouring one out for Chente. Man this is truly the end of an era.
I may have contributed a line or two to this obit, along with my colleague .
“I love L.A. How can you not see that? I suppose the book is, in the end, a failure if it betrays none of the sense of deep feeling I have about the city. But that’s where being a radical comes in — you have to rain on the parade.”
My obit for Mike Davis:
"Where there has not been that opportunity to attend a funeral, to have an end-of-life ceremony, the altar for Day of the Dead becomes the sort of ritual that a lot of people are holding onto."
Essential read from :
latimes.com/entertainment-
"My burning question has been: What exactly are these spaces like to live in? Is a tiny house really a glorified toolshed? Does living in a shipping container feel like ... living in a shipping container?"
A look at design for the unhoused:
Senate in the front. Capitol insurgent in the back.
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Says my paper, which mandates a drug test of its new employees. 👀
Your city is almost a third Latino, yet Latinos are largely invisible in NYT opinion pages, so I'd make a non-gentle suggestion you guys start there.
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All museums everywhere need benches like the ones at the Getty.:
The deadline for fly jokes was 830 pm PST. No more fly jokes are being accepted at this time.
Our rugged individualism has become a toxic individualism.
Too often, Americans sacrifice collective good for individual gain. That was something I explored this week for the section devoted to culture and #Elections2020.
We shoulda built that freeway through Beverly Hills
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Merry Christmas everyone! La Scala’s Beverly Hills location is tucking these invitations to an indoor New Year’s Eve dinner in their takeout bags: “Please keep this discreet, but tell all your friends.” 
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She’s an important LA artist which is presumably something an art website would know.
2020 was a reckoning for museums. But what moves are they making in 2021 to meet all the promises of equity they made last year?
I look at the case of the Huntington, a benefactor of great Gilded Age wealth, that is wrestling with these very questions.
Notice: Putting any museum that accepts Ivanka Trump to its board on my speed dial. I swear I will memorize all your 990s.
I hope the QR codes in lieu of wall text in museums dies a quick and dramatic death, because I can think of nothing more irritating than having to look up some website to figure out what the hell you're looking at.
Informational notice: For everyone applying for jobs at the LA Times, our paper, which has a gift guide for cannabis gifts, still drug tests for ... cannabis. (And yes, the Guild is working on this.)
In 1956, documentary photographer Leonard Nadel captured this indelible image at a border processing center in Edinburg, Tex.: Mexican workers entering the U.S. as part of the bracero guest worker program being doused in DDT — a poison that was banned just 16 years later.
Gonna pull the Band-Aid and just get it out there that we lost our pooch to cancer over the holiday weekend — because 2020 is one continuous kick in the teeth.
She died in her favorite sunbathing spot, as the neighbors blared "Como quien pierde un estrella." It was a good exit.
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It's painful t say this but ... the glorious Bonnie passed away over the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksfully her low-key yet regal manner lives on in pixels. We miss her terribly.
While you guys are slogging around Frieze I’m low key stalking Pedro Pascal around the Whitney.
Art Market: 0
Carolina: 1
#sluttydaddy 🇨🇱
They’ve surrounded the White House with kitchen cabinets.
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Thank you all for the immensely kind words on my new gig. I can't keep up with all the replies. Really excited to be digging a little bit more deeply into El Lay and into the institutions of art and culture for .
"It’s a performance whose defiance resonates profoundly in an era in which a cursory scan of news headlines can feel like an assault on women and their bodies."
200+ women staged "El Violador en tu camino" in L.A. Sunday and it was incredibly stirring:
This is very exciting news.
I deeply appreciate that Wayne Thiebaud was canned from Disney for pro-union activities.
RIP to a great.
That school of contemporary art known as “now i’m gonna make a bad documentary and make you watch it standing up in a gallery”
“It fueled an urgency to make visible the Chicano experience, one that had largely been left out of the history books — an urgency that remains resonant at this time, when the Latino cultural presence in the U.S. remains evanescent.”
My story:
"Conversations can often get tied up on issues such as bike lanes and height limits, without considering the larger inequities our cities perpetuate — such as the ways in which the public space is policed."
I talk to 9 experts who offer their ideas:
If I violate the basic ethics of my job someone profile me so I can pose in nice dresses in Elle.
Nurses begging for masks and ventilators in Queens. And just last year, some real estate developer had $200 mil laying around for this.
So I said I was gonna look like J. Lo by the time I turned 50, which is next week. Please join me in this epic, 8-day fitness journey.
“The story of the Marciano isn’t simply the story of a single museum. It is a story about wealth and class and labor in an art world keen to tout itself as a social good.”
My story:
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Felicidades to @cmonstah for being named one of the Most Influential Latina Journalists in California by @LatinoJournosCA. ccnma.org/news/2020-most
Celebrate with us at the 2020 Latina Journalists virtual Conference Oct. 10th. Join Us: eventbrite.com/e/2020-latina-
Signs you live in LA: it’s not a shrimp dumpling, it’s a camaron dumpling.
SUBSCRIBE.
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How do we get around the LATimes paywall?
Incredible shot of the COVID memorial at the National Mall by Kenny Holston, for the New York Times.
nytimes.com/2021/09/17/us/
And the Oscar for best lede in coverage of the Meghan/Harry/Oprah interview goes to ....
the Irish.
irishtimes.com/culture/tv-rad
It’s been a 💩 day but I did photograph this cat looking pensively through a fence like some character in a Murakami novel.
All art press releases now: blah blah BIPOC blah blah intersectional blah blah decolonial blah blah layered blah blah…
Who wrote this, the 405?
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Pre-Covid, office workers used commutes to decompress after a stressful day. Now we’re immersing ourselves in TV drama to detach from job dramas. on.wsj.com/3zp9ycN
Great now all the New Yorkers can stop moving here and writing dumb stories about how we don’t eat bread.
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May introduce you to my ferocious pitbull who is afraid of…
- the toaster
- the oven
- the gas heater
- the sound the washer makes when it clicks shut
- someone operating a table saw in a three block radius
Between Art Laboe dying and the City Council immolating itself in a dumpster fire of racism, L.A. is having one terrible week and it's only Monday.
OK YOU GUYS i’ve been looking at serial killer architect’s portfolio. He designed a Target in SoHo. Just think about that the next time you pop in for garbage bags and a six pack.
He's right. Don't move here. It's TERRIBLE. The bagels. The pizza. The underrepresentation of Ivy League assholes. I don't know how we do it. Somebody write an essay about the decline of the American West and American optimism.
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Why does anyone voluntarily live in LA? Madness. twitter.com/kcalnews/statu…
I just got a press release about religious architecture and it contains the phrase " at the cutting-edge of holy placemaking."
I have an art criticism joke, but it's trapped in a liminal space of impenetrable language. twitter.com/finoradin/stat
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Born in Lousiana almost 100 years ago. Elizabeth Catlett was her mentor. She was the rare American to travel to China in the ‘60s. She helped rewrite the artistic canon to include Black artists.
Samella Lewis led an absolutely inspiring life.
Me emerging from the pandemic.
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"I don’t feel anger, I really don’t. I feel, you know: ‘How stupid of them.’ Maybe the people who were looking at what I was doing had no eye for the future and, therefore, no eye for the present.”
My obit for Luchita Hurtado:
After countless years of filling out paperwork and multitude of court appearances — including Zoom court throughout the pandemic — today I officially became co-conservator of my half sister Margot. 😭🙌😵
I'm gonna collage all the hot takes about NFTs into a single massive hot take and then sell it as an NFT art work.
In other news: I’ve hired a new research assistant. Drools a lot. Can’t type for shit.
Other things you realise when you have a fever: this painting is Velasquez saying please please please do not make me paint another full-scale portrait of inbred Spanish royals.
Husband who went to school in Newark NJ with actual mobsters says Trump is the worst kind of wannabe mobster because a true mobster woulda never had that convo on the phone.
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Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: "In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity." So true!
USC and the Getty acquired Paul Williams' archive last summer. I consider what that means.
Says USC's Milton Curry: "There are so few Black architects, architectural theorists and historians. The few that we have need to be studied and understood."
Two women architects — Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects in Ireland — have won the 2020 Pritzker Prize.
NO I DON'T KNOW WHO DOES THE GIFT GUIDE. I'VE NEVER KNOWN WHO DOES THE GIFT GUIDE. I NEVER WILL KNOW WHO DOES THE GIFT GUIDE. I DO NOT DO THE GIFT GUIDE.
Me after filing the story five days late and 1,000 words over word count:
While I was doing research for LA's new YOLA building, I found some images of El Sistema's building in Caracas — which contains a seat and curtain design by Carlos Cruz Diez. It looks phenomenal.
elsistema.org.ve/centro-naciona
I'm at the "fuck it I'm eating pancakes for lunch" point of the pandemic.
This is like the scene in "What We Do in the Shadows" in which Nandor goes to the Staten Island community council meeting and demands "the complete and total supplication of this governing body to my command."
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We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won’t allow legal observers) the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, each one of which has a BIG Trump lead. Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact,.....
"It's a logo that is nostalgic for VW buses and surfer magazines."
I have a look at L.A.'s new tourism logo, with a shout out to Ocean Pacific tees, surf design and Gen-X. (Sorry Gen Z, we were gradient script logos before you existed.)
ok someone take away his ipad
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Brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly—the first of a series of major art projects we’ve commissioned as part of our brand new #LetsDoLondon campaign. Lots more to come very soon! #DavidHockney
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"They are the socially distant design we’ve been living with all along."
I consider the drive-thru in the age of COVID-19:
Somebody just spent 35k on a Joan Didion footstool and this is just more evidence that rich people need to pay taxes.
“It did not go unnoticed by people scrolling through photos of the destruction online that Black and Latino custodians — plus one first-generation Korean American congressman — were the ones picking up a mess left behind by a mostly white group.” washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl
The #BlackatLAT action has drawn a lot of attention to the struggles faced by Black journalists in our newsroom. But I also want to highlight their work, which is inspiring to me as a journalist:
They're reading Biden's favorite poets on MSNBC and it's like we can have a bit of culture again.
What a relief to hear complete sentences. And a speech that addresses systemic racism and science and the victims of coronavirus.
"Data shows that outside of heavily blue metro areas like Phoenix & Tucson, which also have high numbers of Indigenous voters, much of the rural blue islands that have voted for Biden ... are on tribal lands."
Good piece on the Indigenous vote:
hcn.org/articles/indig
This is the story I was writing when the pandemic hit. I finally finished it 14 months later.
It became strangely personal.
