Art
When Power Attacks Art
After taking power in 1933, the Nazis attacked many German artists and arts institutions for polluting the nation’s culture and redirected society’s institutions to enforce their ideology.
Laband Art Gallery Spotlights Chicanx Art
“Seeing Chicanx: The Durón Family Collection,” an exhibition of 50 artworks from Southern California Chicanx artists whose pieces span five decades, is showing at the LMU Laband Art Gallery.
Marks of the City
An L.A. muralist ponders the shifting views about graffiti and street art.
The Voices of Public Art
Los Angeles enjoys a long heritage of public art giving voice to the city’s local communities. But should we be concerned when sports teams and other corporations adopt similar imagery, or hire local artists, to reach those communities?
A Conversation With Saeri Cho Dobson
Saeri Cho Dobson, associate professor of graphic design, talks about design as an expression of social justice and her work with students involved with community organizations. She was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.
The Seven Deadly Sins by Stephanie Argueta ’11
Faced with a senior project to complete, Stephanie Argueta ’11, who majored in studio arts, painted the vices in a contemporary, not classical, context.
Memorial Tattoos
Andrew Ranson ’98 founded Memorial Ink to document veterans’ memorial tattoos, those that pay tribute their fallen comrades and friends.
L.A.’s Unmatched Murals
With perhaps 1,500 murals across the city, Los Angeles has earned its reputation as the Mural Capital of the United States.
Object Lesson: History Set in Sand
It must be one of the oddest historical pieces in the William H. Hannon Library Archives and Special Collections: a sand jar, eight inches tall, with the words “The New Loyola — Rev. Joseph Sullivan —For the greater glory of God,” an image of the U.S. flag, and a jagged pattern of green, white, red, tan, pink, gray and gold sand lines. Even stranger is its origin.