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Anna Katz is an assistant curator at MOCA.
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Anna Katz
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Design and Architecture
Peter Shire's playful art makes a comeback Anyone who grew up in the 1980s will remember postmodernism: bright colors, cartoony shapes, a sense of fun, in furniture and buildings and art and TV shows. It got its start with Ettore Sottsass' Memphis group in Milan and was a rebuke to super-serious modernism. Some loved it, some hated it. Peter Shire at his studio in Echo Park Photo by Joshua White, courtesy of MOCA One of its most energetic exemplars in LA was the designer, sculptor and ceramicist Peter Shire. The prolific artist co-founded Memphis and since then has never stopped making works that embody what he describes as "serious play." Now a new generation has fallen in love with his work and he has a retrospective at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise . DnA producer Avishay Artsy met with the artist and spoke to curators and fellow artists to find out why.
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Lost Notes
Reissue: Heat Rocks - Cymande Legendary DJ/crate-digger Cut Chemist professes his love for Cymande’s 1972 self-titled debut.
Bookworm
Gary Shteyngart: Lake Success Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success is about a hedge-fund manager billionaire who has lost track of what he once cared about and loved.
Film Reviews
First Man Here’s the radical notion behind Damien Chazelle’s “First Man”: Tell the story of mankind’s boldest adventure thus far, the Apollo 11 mission that reached the moon nearly a half-century ago, but tell it through a taciturn, emotionally closed-off hero, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the lunar surface.
LA Observed
Wages can't keep up with home prices in Los Angeles Los Angeles is an expensive place to live in and a new report is putting some hard numbers to that sobering fact. The real estate firm Attom Data Solutions finds that homes in L.A. County have not been this hard to pay for since the Great Recession. That is stoking the debate surrounding an upcoming ballot initiative this November, known as Proposition 10. and whether that can be the solution to this growing problem.