How do Middle Eastern women wish to be seen? While newspapers and televisions often exhibit photographs plucked from incidents of violence and chaos, artists are using images to express personal stories of empowerment and vitality. Continue reading
![[Ampersand LA] LACMA’s “Islamic Art Now” highlights female vitality](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/lailaessaydi-cropped.jpeg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Ampersand LA] LACMA’s “Islamic Art Now” highlights female vitality")
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![[LA Weekly] Ramiro Gomez: Making Menial Meaningful](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/law_people_ramiro_gomez-2250.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Weekly] Ramiro Gomez: Making Menial Meaningful")
[LA Weekly] Ramiro Gomez: Making Menial Meaningful
“I know how to draw faces!” Ramiro Gomez insists with a grin, dabbing brown paint onto a glossy white magazine page with a slender brush. Shoulders and arms appear in a coppery sheen, then a head topped with thick black hair. But no face, at least not this time. Continue reading
![[Blog] Back at Ted Gibson’s framing shop, this time in for a surprise](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/129.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Blog] Back at Ted Gibson’s framing shop, this time in for a surprise")
[Blog] Back at Ted Gibson’s framing shop, this time in for a surprise
Ted Gibson’s framing shop has stubbornly stayed in business. It has kept its charm, too. Continue reading
![[Intersections] Artist Ramiro Gomez: Painting LA’s ‘invisible’ workers (+ Video)](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/portrait_of_an_affluent_family.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Intersections] Artist Ramiro Gomez: Painting LA’s ‘invisible’ workers (+ Video)")
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[Intersections] Artist Ramiro Gomez: Painting LA’s ‘invisible’ workers (+ Video)
Artist Ramiro Gomez creates paintings of L.A.’s gardeners and janitors, nannies and housekeepers — the fleet of workers who keep some of the city’s most upscale households running smoothly. Continue reading
![[LA Times] Isamu Noguchi: A long lost native son](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/009281.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Times] Isamu Noguchi: A long lost native son")
[LA Times] Isamu Noguchi: A long lost native son
Isamu Noguchi was born in L.A. but kept studios in New York and Japan. Laguna Art Museum honors his California ties. A few years before he died in 1988, artist Isamu Noguchi established a 24,000-square-foot museum to house representative samples of his seven-decade-long career: paintings, ceramics, furniture, sculptures, landscaping designs and set designs. Noguchi opted … Continue reading
![[LA Times] Moving day for a landmark framing store](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/framingstore-kirkmckoy.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Times] Moving day for a landmark framing store")
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[LA Times] Moving day for a landmark framing store
Ted Gibson’s framing and art store is moving from its original 1946 site on 7th Street to Koreatown. Continue reading
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