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Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Who Defines Heritage?
January 18, 2023

The society we now live in has been, in large measure, accomplished by destroying the cultural heritage of previous generations at various moments.Cultural heritage is made up of the monuments,

Mindfulness in the Museum: Art for Mental Wellbeing
December 21, 2022

I know we call them art museums, but I think theyre really wellbeing centers, because people are coming inmaybe they dont know thats whats about to happenbut you are helping them expand who they

Mindfulness in the Museum: Healing through Mindfulness
December 07, 2022

The museums give us these just incredible opportunities to have some kind of an encounter with different ways of seeing the world, shining a light on some aspect of our history or aspect of our human

Mindfulness in the Museum: Lessons from a Meditation Guide
November 23, 2022

Mindfulness, for me, enables me to experience an art museum as if Im listening to music. To just listen, attend to how all these objects make me feel.How can mindfulness change our experience o

The Art of Gardening: California Native Plants
November 09, 2022

Whenever I take people in there, I sayand its not a very large roomI say, Youre now in the presence of millions and millions and millions of living beings. Fortunately, most of them are very sma

The Art of Gardening: Tomatomania!
October 26, 2022

Im after the charm of tomatoes. Im after the history of tomatoes. Just obviously, appeal and taste and all of that. But if I can tie it up all in one bundle, thats what I wanna choose.Tomatoe

The Art of Gardening: Storytelling with Plants at Disneyland
October 12, 2022

What it is that we do at Disneyland is tell stories. And the horticulture is a work of art helping to tell the story.At Disneyland, elaborate, immaculate gardens spring to life literally overnig

Reflecting on 25 Years of the Getty Center
August 31, 2022

I was there for the groundbreaking of the Getty Center. I was there for opening day of the Getty Center. I think for a lot of people, it said LA has arrived.After nearly 15 years in the making,

Black Photographers Represent Their World
August 17, 2022

There was a lotta negativity because there was just pictures of Black people. That was one of the critiques, that we just photographed Black people. Said, Yeah. You photograph just white people. Th

Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles
August 03, 2022

You know, everything is not just red, yellow, blue, and coming from a tube. It can be anything out there in the world. Grab it and use it.In 1956, artist Ed Ruscha left his home in Oklahoma and dr