Los Angeles: Folk Art Everywhere. Summer long treasure hunt!

Los Angeles: Folk Art Everywhere. Summer long treasure hunt!

ByPatti Mangan

To highlight Los Angeles’ rich multicultural wealth, and inspire exploration of LA’s diverse communities, the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) is taking beautiful, curious and attention-grabbing works of folk art out of the traditional museum setting and displaying them in unexpected public spaces throughout the city. “Think of the new ‘Folk Art Everywhere’ show…

Here kitty, kitty.
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Here kitty, kitty.

ByKate Horan

Are we having a “cat” moment? It’s not our first. Our fascination with cats has a long history – to wit Egyptians had a religion that centered on the worship of animals, including cats. The Goddess Mafdet, the deification of justice and execution, was a lion-headed goddess while the Goddess Bast, also a cat-goddess, represented fertility…