Legitimate https://legitimate.net/ Legitimate: Recent articles en-us 20 Carolina Miranda on chronicling L.A.'s rich artistic communities In 10 years at The Times, I have gotten to immerse myself in a vibrant artistic community that belies every trope about a culture-less L.A. 23 Mar 2024 15:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-03-23/carolina-miranda-goodbye-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-03-23/carolina-miranda-goodbye-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design 'Frida' doc on Amazon Prime Video captures painter's voice Frida Kahlo's story has been told and retold, but there are still pieces left to divulge, as evidenced in the new Prime Video documentary 'Frida.' 16 Mar 2024 15:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-03-16/frida-kahlo-documentary-amazon-prime-video-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-03-16/frida-kahlo-documentary-amazon-prime-video-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design Mellon invests $500 million to change the nature of monuments Thanks to Elizabeth Alexander, the Mellon has committed $500 million to preserve, relocate and generate discussion about monuments — and it's changing the nature of monuments. 14 Mar 2024 10:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-14/elizabeth-alexander-mellon-foundation-monuments https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-14/elizabeth-alexander-mellon-foundation-monuments Carolina A. Miranda arts Architecture and Design Homepage News How 2024 Oscar noms 'Barbie' and 'Poor Things' use design 'Barbie' and 'Poor Things' use architecture to conjure fantastical worlds. In 'The Zone of Interest,' it channels the banality of evil. 09 Mar 2024 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-03-09/2024-oscars-best-picture-nominees-architecture-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-03-09/2024-oscars-best-picture-nominees-architecture-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design L.A. design is focus of New York Review of Architecture edition Architecture criticism is not dead yet. The New York Review of Architecture turns its eye to L.A. — from cemetery design to the rising Lucas Museum. 02 Mar 2024 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-03-02/new-york-review-of-architecture-la-issue-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-03-02/new-york-review-of-architecture-la-issue-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design Julio Torres' 'Problemista' skewers visa office, art world The actor-comedian's first feature film, 'Problemista,' draws inspiration from his own byzantine immigration experience as well as surrealist paintings. 28 Feb 2024 11:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-28/comedian-julio-torres-skewers-art-immigration-directorial-debut-problemista https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-28/comedian-julio-torres-skewers-art-immigration-directorial-debut-problemista Carolina A. Miranda arts Ed Templeton captures skating life at Long Beach Museum of Art Ed Templeton's photos from his time as a pro skateboarder also record poignant moments of friendship, love and loneliness — not to mention broken bones. 17 Feb 2024 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-02-17/ed-templeton-photographs-skaters-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-02-17/ed-templeton-photographs-skaters-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design Joey Terrill chronicles queer Chicano life at Marc Selwyn gallery L.A. artist Joey Terrill's vibrant canvases, on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, chronicle intimate moments of queer Chicano life: heartbreak and love and life with HIV. 14 Feb 2024 11:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-02-14/joey-terrill-painter-queer-chicano-life-marc-selwyn https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-02-14/joey-terrill-painter-queer-chicano-life-marc-selwyn Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Things to Do Homepage News With Oceanwide Plaza, L.A. joins cities with dead high-rises Decaying high-rises in L.A. — as well as Pyongyang and Caracas — represent the limitations of technology and grand building schemes. 10 Feb 2024 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-02-10/la-oceanwide-plaza-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-02-10/la-oceanwide-plaza-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design The 'cool aunt' is a subversive counter to the 'tradwife' At a time in which women's bodily autonomy is constricted, the 'cool auntie' offers a model of glamorous independence — and a counter to the 'tradwife.' 06 Feb 2024 11:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-02-06/cool-aunt-social-media-pop-culture-tradwife-counter https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-02-06/cool-aunt-social-media-pop-culture-tradwife-counter Carolina A. Miranda Homepage News How Netflix's 'Griselda' captures '70s cocaine excess Architect William Pereira's 1973 Times Mirror building in downtown L.A. makes a special appearance in Netflix's 'Griselda' as a signifier of cocaine excess. 03 Feb 2024 16:15 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-02-03/griselda-netflix-design-architecture-70s-excess-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-02-03/griselda-netflix-design-architecture-70s-excess-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design Movies 'Settlers,' 'White on White' tackle art and colonialism 'The Settlers' and 'White on White' explore the role of film and photography in a brutal era of South American history. 27 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-01-27/chilean-films-settlers-white-on-white-tierra-del-fuego-colonization-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-01-27/chilean-films-settlers-white-on-white-tierra-del-fuego-colonization-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design 'Dwell Time' and the Getty reveal the art of preserving art A book and a preservation effort at the Getty put a lens on conservation. Plus, a Black stage actor sues for discrimination, in our weekly arts newsletter 20 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-01-20/how-art-conservators-fix-the-treasures-that-are-broken-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-01-20/how-art-conservators-fix-the-treasures-that-are-broken-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design Art reportedly used to train Midjourney, causing stir among artists AI is swallowing art — high and low — whole. Plus: a shocking turn in a Nazi-looting case and challenging gender in dance, in our weekly arts newsletter 13 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-01-13/ai-is-making-mincemeat-out-of-art-not-to-mention-intellectual-property-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-01-13/ai-is-making-mincemeat-out-of-art-not-to-mention-intellectual-property-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design Venita Blackburn's debut novel 'Dead in Long Beach, California' The debut novel 'Dead in Long Beach, California,' is a sharp, dazzling turn for Compton-raised author Venita Blackburn, who made her name with lightning-fast fiction. 11 Jan 2024 11:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-11/author-venita-blackburn-is-known-for-piercing-brevity-her-debut-novel-makes-a-case-for-going-long https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-11/author-venita-blackburn-is-known-for-piercing-brevity-her-debut-novel-makes-a-case-for-going-long Carolina A. Miranda Books Entertainment & Arts Exhibitions inspired by the Andes and European collector's cabinets Work by Carolyn Castaño and a show inspired by cabinets of curiosities offer subversive delights. Plus, art at the Huntington and the Cheech, in our arts newsletter 06 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-01-06/exhibitions-at-the-craft-contemporary-and-lacma-tweak-colonialisms-gaze-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2024-01-06/exhibitions-at-the-craft-contemporary-and-lacma-tweak-colonialisms-gaze-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design Shows on Teddy Sandoval and Xicanx art delve into art of the body Work by Teddy Sandoval at VPAM and a multigenerational exhibition at the Cheech dig into queerness, gender and the politics of the body. 02 Jan 2024 11:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-01-02/two-exhibitions-at-vpam-and-the-cheech-put-the-chicanx-body-front-and-center https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-01-02/two-exhibitions-at-vpam-and-the-cheech-put-the-chicanx-body-front-and-center Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Flexibility is key at Perelman PAC and Lincoln Center's Geffen Hall Perelman PAC and Lincoln Center's Geffen Hall — New York performance spaces addressing intricate technical needs — are uniting artists and audiences. 26 Dec 2023 11:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-12-26/the-pandemic-kept-us-apart-how-two-new-york-performance-bring-people-back-together https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-12-26/the-pandemic-kept-us-apart-how-two-new-york-performance-bring-people-back-together Carolina A. Miranda arts Architecture and Design Theater Classical Music An opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is visually rich A visually striking opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Plus the art of WWI and stained glass in honor of civil rights, in our weekly arts newsletter 09 Dec 2023 16:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2023-12-09/l-a-operas-el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego-revisits-the-story-of-arts-viral-power-couple-essential-arts-arts-culture https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2023-12-09/l-a-operas-el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego-revisits-the-story-of-arts-viral-power-couple-essential-arts-arts-culture Carolina A. Miranda arts Museums & Art Theater Classical Music Architecture and Design Kerry James Marshall stained glass replaces Confederate windows New stained glass by Marshall in honor of peaceful protest — along with a poem by Elizabeth Anderson — replace a 1950s tribute to Confederate generals 07 Dec 2023 11:00 UTC https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-12-07/kerry-james-marshalls-stained-glass-at-dc-national-cathedral-honor-protest https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-12-07/kerry-james-marshalls-stained-glass-at-dc-national-cathedral-honor-protest Carolina A. Miranda arts Architecture and Design