Boom: A Journal of California

Spring 2012

A Culture of Connection
Disney's Design
Water into Wine ... and more!

Ambassadors in Overalls
Immigration in the making of California
Amnesty or Abolition? ... and more!

Anti-Democracy in California
Immigration and laughter on the airwaves
Seeing through the sprawl ... and more!

Concrete in Paradise
Can We Save the College Dream
"Magic" Johnson and the Quest for Retail Justice ... and more!

How to Fix a Broken State
Race and the California Crisis
The Crossroads of Mission Viejo ... and more!

David Serlin on bridging disability rights with the egalitarian and modernist principles of Universal Design.

"The pivotal event may have come in 1982." Barry Katz discusses Silicon Valley, and what it means to be "designed in California."

The San Joaquin Valley is the world's leading producer of agricultural products, and is also the country's leading producer of meth.

Visit our flickr gallery to see the images behind the stories in Boom. This month, visual representations of Border Crossings

ends May 20, 2012
ongoing
L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy
This exhibition explores the role of Los Angeles artists in the scene and historical context of post-war American figurative art.

ends May 20, 2012
ongoing
California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation
The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, dedicated to the Los Angeles art collector and patron of the arts, presents a wide selction of contemporary California art from Weisman's collection. The exhibit will include work from the 1960s to the present, including such movements as California Pop Art, Hard-Edge Abstraction and Light and Space.