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Photos via fhashemi, mousavi1388, and LAist.

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Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990 (an archive created by the UCLA Library)

 
One of the many reasons I love Los Angeles: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  People who roll out the tired, “LA has no culture” trope can sit on it, Potsie-style; we’re not New York or Berlin, but there’s excellent stuff going on here.  The newish Broad Contemporary Art Museum (which is on the LACMA [...]

Fuck the Academy Awards; it’s bad enough that I have to talk to industry people with some frequency just because I live where the movies come from. I updated my LibraryThing account instead, and I share it with you out of narcissism love. Here it is.

This is one for the “Things That Only Bone Would Find Funny” file.  Photographed in the Eagle Rock neighborhood this afternoon: an eyeglass shop named for a famous book by Guy Debord, which was one of the manifestos of a Marxism- and Surrealism-influenced group in Europe called the Situationist International (the ideological forebears of today’s [...]

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