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Deana Lawson's photographs are a good way to start your Monday. Also, transport yourself to the poolside cabanas of the Hollywood Roosevelt with Samanta Helou Hernandez's vivid photos of the Felix Art Fair.

In an opinion piece, Todd Fine and Asad Dandia break down a "long-standing concern" of the September 11 Museum: "the treatment of Arab-Americans, Muslims, and Islam."

This, and more, below.

— Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

Deana Lawson’s Sublime Visions of Black Communion

Portals to the otherworldly, Lawson’s grand-scale photographs reveal the divine in the secular. | Daniella Brito

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Sculptures in Showers, Paintings Above Toilets: Moments From the Felix Art Fair

Hosted at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the fair mostly focused on local LA galleries this year, and that’s a good thing. | Samanta Helou Hernandez

We Need to Reform the September 11 Museum

Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning. | Todd Fine and Asad Dandia

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Made on a Boat, a Photographer’s Dreamy Views of the Sea

Paul Rousteau’s Seascapes evokes the melancholy feeling we often get when looking out at the ocean. | Lauren Moya Ford

A Guide to Reading “Promiscuously”

Crackling with against-the-grain analysis, Heather Cass White’s latest book argues for an approach rooted in pleasure rather than the performance of knowledge. | Sara Krolewski

FROM THE ARCHIVE

The Japanese American Architect Who Was a Disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright

Kaneji Domoto, a little-known architect from the Bay Area, designed five houses for the famous planned community of Usonia. | Claire Voon

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