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November 17, 2021 • View in browser

Citizen 13660, a Graphic Memoir of Japanese Concentration Camps, Is an Understudied Masterpiece

Seeing Miné Okubo’s memoir makes the betrayal, humiliation, and downright misery suffered by countless Japanese Americans hit home in a way that no history textbook ever could. | Caroline Ellen Liou

Pippa Garner’s Household Inventions Reimagine the World

Garner appeared on the talk show circuit in the early 1980s as an eccentric pop culture figure who was never fully understood. | Renée Reizman

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Miguel Angel Payano Jr., “当时,当年 (That Time, That Year)” (2021), mixed media on wood, 24 x 24 x 7 9/10 inches (image courtesy the artist and Make Room)

Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI
Oxy Arts through November 19

Miguel Angel Payano Jr.: Elusive Nature
Make Room through November 20

WAVE – New Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts
Japan House Los Angeles through November 28

the body is a blade (that sharpens by cutting)
Fellows of Contemporary Art through December 4

Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration
Craft in America Center through December 4

Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s-1990s
Fowler Museum at UCLA through December 5