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Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Who Defines Heritage?
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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