Carolina A. Miranda is a Los Angeles Times columnist covering art, architecture and urban design, along with various other facets of culture in Los Angeles. Her work often looks at how the arts intersect with politics, gender and race — from the ways in which designers are rethinking the nature of monuments to the ways in which art intersects with development and gentrification. She is a regular contributor to KCRW’s “Press Play” and was a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism.
Latest From This Author
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President Trump actively disdained culture during his term while deploying it as a weapon. His call for a National Garden of American Heroes is a final shot across the bow.
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What the acquisition of Williams’ archive could reveal about the little-studied architect. Plus, “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” and Kennedy Center Honors in our weekly arts newsletter.
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Six buildings that tell the design story of Paul R. Williams, the first Black architect in the AIA. His work is little studied, but his archive, acquired by the Getty and USC, is about to change that.
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L.A. artist Janna Ireland eschews heroic image-making in favor of chronicling the quiet details that make Williams’ buildings special.
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The Neoclassical Capitol serves as stage to a riot. Plus, a doc about Rembrandt and a George Floyd billboard revived, in our weekly arts newsletter.
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Signifying nothing: The CIA’s logo looks like an album cover. Space Force seems to be jacking ‘Star Trek.’ For COVID-19, graphic design seems to be nonexistent.
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As a mob of Trump radicals smashed windows and invaded the Capitol, a building whose idealized narratives of liberty and democracy rest on the labor of slaves.
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The former Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation chairman helped transition the Autry from ‘cowboy museum’ to one more representative of the diversity of the West
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We look ahead to 2021 with musings on music, theater and art — and a poignant poem from L.A.-based artist Kade L. Twist — in our weekly arts newsletter.
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At the end of 2020, Adobe will end support and distribution of its Flash animation. This could spell the end of internet art projects built with the software.