Carolina A. Miranda

Columnist

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

Entertainment & Arts
Aperture covers a century of Latino image-making. It’s the tip of the iceberg
L.A. curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas dives into the underrepresented legacy of Latino photography. Plus, art and Omicron and Sidney Poitier’s theatrical legacy.
Entertainment & Arts
Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s new event space is daring — and trapped inside its own head
A stuporstructure? OMA’s first major building in L.A. has seductive moments plus drive-by appeal. So why is Shohei Shigematsu’s design so hard to love?
Entertainment & Arts
We finally got a look at Joan Didion’s potato masher of manifest destiny
Marinating in Joan Didion’s profound legacy. Plus, OCMA’s new acquisitions initiative and revisiting a ’70s ‘Tree House’ in the Hollywood Hills.
Entertainment & Arts
A rare look inside Bernard Judge’s 1970s experimental Tree House, shaped by ecology
In 1977, The Times described Bernard Judge’s Los Angeles ‘Tree House’ as ‘a lark of a house.’ In the wake of the architect’s death we visit the unusual home.
Entertainment & Arts
By scanning her own hands, Barbara T. Smith presents an ode to the aging female body
Underrated L.A. performance artist pioneer Barbara T. Smith turns the gaze on herself to take on the aging female body — with a computer scanner.
Books
Appreciation: How Joan Didion punctured California narratives about manifest destiny ... with a potato masher
Didion’s book ‘Where I Was From’ picks apart mythologies of the overland crossing that shaped the Anglo West psyche. How a potato masher figures in the story.
Entertainment & Arts
For Pompidou architect Richard Rogers, Los Angeles was inspiration and cautionary tale
The Pritzker Prize-winning designer, who died Saturday at 88, was influenced by the Case Study Houses, but critical of L.A. sprawl.
Entretenimiento
Lo que la era del COVID-19 nos enseñó sobre la arquitectura en 2021
The humble party tent is wildly flexible in COVID times. It offers access to fresh air, showed us forgotten spaces and reveals ways we could better deploy urban space.
Entertainment & Arts
The year of the party tent: What the age of COVID taught us about architecture in 2021
The humble party tent is wildly flexible in COVID times. It offers access to fresh air, showed us forgotten spaces and reveals ways we could better deploy urban space.
Entertainment & Arts
Mass incarceration touched their family. Las Nietas de Nonó tackle its legacy in performance
Las Nietas will stage three performances at the Hammer inspired by cousins who were incarcerated. Plus, Rubens at the Getty and parsing “West Side Story.”