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Home Ground: ‘Art is the Client:’ LACMA, the wrecking ball, and surviving jewel box

Columnist · April 1, 2020

Four buildings at LACMA face the percussion hammer, wrecking ball or computer-controlled hydraulic jack — perhaps all three — but not quite yet. Remediation began earlier this year, removing asbestos […]

Home Ground: What God hath intended: jellies, jams

Columnist · February 22, 2019

Pectin makes it all possible. Pectin is one of God’s best ideas, purveyed in fruity packages. No question: God intended us to have jellies and jams and marmalade. This is […]

Slow-plucked chicken and M.F.K. Fisher’s anti-war essay

Columnist · September 27, 2018

There was a train, not a particularly good one, that stopped at Vevey about 10 in the morning on the way to Italy. Chexbres and I used to take it […]

What’s changed in Southern California since the last century? Everything.

Columnist · March 1, 2018

Look deeply into this landscape image. You might well think it is a dreamscape of Eden, or, perhaps, a fantasia of Devon. The original was painted by an English watercolor […]

Home Ground: ‘Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps’ and the making of L.A.’s contemporary art scene

Columnist · January 25, 2018

Three point six miles separate Larchmont Boulevard and 736 La Cienega Blvd. My computer computes that this trip along Melrose Ave. would take, I suppose in some alternate universe, 15 […]

The missing house of America’s ‘most dangerous architect’

Columnist · September 28, 2017

He was a proven and inveterate liar before he was elected to high office; Roy Cohn was his trusted advisor; and his fellow Republicans were loath to denounce him before […]

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