Maura Lucking

Lien Ta closed her Koreatown restaurant, Here’s Looking at You, in July.

The pandemic has brought many people pain and anxiety. To Wouter Vanstiphout, a professor of “design as politics,” it has also brought clarity about the weaknesses in the “shiny global city” and its culture, economy and values. Vanstiphout asks if cities based on tourism, fossil fuels and hypercompetitiveness can survive the coronavirus.

Thousands of people in Los Angeles County who cannot fully care for themselves rely on home care workers for daily tasks like meal prep and bathing.

You are working at home. But is your home working for you? Kelly Wearstler has some tips to improve your interior, at whatever scale.

In 1992, Peter Loughrey founded Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA), specializing in 20th Century design and art. The first piece he ever auctioned was a Frank Lloyd Wright window.

Roman Mars talks about LA, writing for print v. radio, and whether he secretly yearns to be a designer.

Kelly Wearstler has held reign in interior design since arriving in Los Angeles in the 1990s. She’s now teaching an online MasterClass.

Child care facilities were deemed essential in the early days of the pandemic. Yet many of them closed as parents pulled children out when stay-at-home orders came.

Shrines celebrate Black individuality, newspaper clippings highlight the complexity of the Black experience, and eerie lullabies stir memory and loneliness.