Los Angeles Art Museums

In case you need to duck into a #SafeSpace to escape the completely unnecessary military occupation of entirely peaceful Los Angeles, some recent photos from the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Broad (both free, even to those who aren’t smart enough to have SNAP/EBT cards). The Broad:

It’s apparently rare for a Black person to enter the Broad, but in case one does his/her/zir/their flag is ready:

Size Matters (LA MOCA; Alfonso Gonzalez, Jr.):

Did you know that “artists are marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation” (LA MOCA)?

It’s important to look at the world through a “queer lens”:

If children want to adopt the queer lens they can start in the gift shop:

Equality is so important that artists who don’t identify as “women” are excluded from books in the same gift shop (the late great Louise Nevelson, who explicitly said that she didn’t want to be pigeonholed as a “woman artist” is pigeonholed as a “woman sculptor”):

The gift shop was a Black-free environment rich in books regarding the Black Queer lifestyle (also a book about abortion care):

Did a Deplorable get into the museum woodpile or does the painting make fun of the Deplorables? (Christine Tien Wang):

A painting about the Black body in a museum where I didn’t see any Black employees or visitors:

A painting about “LGBTQ+ rights activism” and “the AIDS epidemic” (which is not in any way a “gay disease”?):

Speaking of a virus that is not in any way “gay”, if you’re concerned about SARS-CoV-2 infection, Science says that the best job you can choose is one in which you’re guaranteed to be exposed to hundreds of potentially infected humans every day (extra points for the below-the-nose mask):