I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and I’ve got lots of essential arts. A flimsy frontIt is a week in which all talk is about the White House and who gets to inhabit it next, so it seems right to pay the White House a visit. This White House is all facade: a scrim crafted out of scraps of white vinyl sewn together by hand to create a crude, one-dimensional approximation of the U.S. president’s home. Structures such as the White House represent important sites of “power and indoctrination,” he said at the time. As we careen toward the election, “White House II,” as the installation is titled, takes on added significance.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 31, 2020 15:02 UTC