Editor's Message
Running Local
For at least the next few issues, my column no longer will appear on this page. Instead, an expanded version of it will be found in the Local section. As its title—“City Notes”—suggests, the column will focus on life here on the homefront. Rest assured that from Afghanistan to Arizona, the many senseless wars being waged in strange and forbidding lands will get their due as well.
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
Made in L.A. 2020: a version
By Olivia GauthierJUL-AUG 2021 | ArtSeen
Conceived prior to the 2020 election and before “coronavirus” became common terminology, the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2020: a version, offers a trenchant and diverging array of artworks under the auspice of locality—Los Angeles as a lens, however ambiguous.
My Own Version of You
By Evan KennedyMAY 2021 | Poetry
Evan Kennedy is the author of I am, am I, to trust the joy that joy is no more or less there now than before (Roof Books). He lives in San Francisco, California.
Listening In: Version and Inversion
By Scott GuttermanJUL-AUG 2020 | Music
In this column last month, for a piece called “Vision and Revision,” I concluded with a poem by Rumi (“The Guest House”) about the inevitability of change, and the need to accept it. The story struck a fairly optimistic note. But if I am honest, my predominant feeling lately has been one of dread. To open the newspaper is to unleash a cascade of barely imaginable stories. Yet how can we be surprised when we knew? The answer: We don’t want to know.
Side Issues
By George RushOCT 2020 | Critics Page
With the notable exception of the brilliant Beverly Fishman, who encouraged us to question all forms of painting, my education didn’t really consider the sides of paintings. They were painted white—that ever-problematic stand-in for neutrality—or stained by action on the front, but more often simply ignored.
