Itier's photographs on display focus on the facade of the A-Ma Temple, still standing and little changed today; views of Taipa harbor filled with small Chinese junks; and the then magnificent Praia Grande bay with its promenade of double-story grand colonial houses, which have long disappeared following extensive redevelopment and land reclamation.
Beatriz Cortez: Trinidad / Joy Station Installation by the L.A.-based artist celebrates indigenous peoples and multiculturalism; with the companion installation "Beatriz Cortez & Rafa Esparza: Nomad 13". Also on display: "Focus Iran 3: Contemporary Photography and Video". Craft Contemporary (formerly the Craft & Folk Art Museum), 5814 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. Opens Sun.; ends May 12. Closed Mon.
A library display focuses on fox and hounds and includes bronze sculptures, paintings and desk accessories.
Downstairs in UCMP's "Fishbowl," a display focused on five mass extinctions in Earth's history.
Around this wall they will have an "artist of the month" display, focusing on both well-known and lesser-known work.
Much of the WWI-era sheet music on display focuses on women, particularly nurses, portraying them as symbols of purity amid the destruction of war.
The online bookshop Book Stand's display focuses on books about plants, including "the southwest," a new booklet featuring the artist Ye Rin Mok's photographs of unusual vegetation that she encountered on an impromptu drive through Utah and Arizona.
By this argument, the "Modern Amazon" show is similar to the exhibition of tattoo designs at the Drawing Center two years ago, or to the illuminating display focusing on the symbolic, physical and social importance of hair in the art and life of different African cultures that can be seen at the Museum of African Art, a few doors up the street from the New Museum.
While it might be argued that the more innovative and influential cultural identity of dear old Madchester was created in downtown counter-cultural haunts such as the sadly defunct Haçienda, this display focuses on what the mums and dads were watching on the box back home: Coronation Street, The Comedians and Top Of The Pops.
Devoted to 16 watercolors by Cézanne and continuing through Jan . 12 the display focuses primarily on his landscapes, though it includes still lifes like the early "Three Pears" (left), which was bought by Degas in 1895, and "Still Life With Carafe, Bottle and Fruit," from shortly before Cézanne's death in 1906.
The Jag does have the same 10-inch upper touch screen found on many current Jaguar Land Rover products as well as a lower 5.5 inch display focused on climate controls.
