Stacy Suaya

Stories

  1. How Forensics, Fine Art, and the Greek Soccer Team Revealed the Face of a 3,500-Year-Old Warrior

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    A bald man is shown from the back, using a haptic device and two computer screens, one with a man's face that looks like it's made of clay; behind that, a man with a realistic face and long curly hair

    A Bronze Age warrior with a fascinating backstory arrives at the Getty Villa Museum

  2. In the Algorithm’s Eyes, “We Are Already Plants”

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    A green plant sits under lamps, entwined with colorful balls of light handing from the ceiling

    Slovenian bio artist Špela Petrič explores the vegetal world with artificial intelligence (AI), speculating that humans have more in common with plants than we think

  3. Your Next Dress Could Be Made from Orange Peels or Maple Leaves

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    A blonde person wearing a spotlit red leather dress with a skirt made of scale-like cutouts walks down a darkened runway

    French American creative director and Vegan Fashion Week founder Emmanuelle Rienda shares her thoughts on ethical dressing, the future of fashion, and what luxury means today

  4. Designing for Humanity in a Car-Centric City

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    A woman stands in the center of a pedestrian bridge with a building behind her with a cement base and a circular glass form rising from it.

    Architect Ana Lasala shares what has worked (and almost worked) in six LA urban design projects

  5. The Colorful Geometry of Franklin D. Israel’s LA

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    A cubic house of bold yellow, gray and brown colors with a low wooden fence sits on a curved street

    In the 1980s and ’90s, a small group of architects, including Franklin D. Israel, left a vibrant, playful mark on Los Angeles

  6. Makers' Marks

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    A signature painted in the corner of a painting hung with an ornate frame is camouflaged by the subject matter

    Getty curators explore the meaning behind artists’ signatures—those flamboyant, modest, or provocatively hidden final flourishes

  7. Designing for Disaster

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    A white structure made from conical forms with domes roofs set in the desert and surrounded by rugged mountains and a blue sky streaked with white clouds

    Post-fires, rebuilding means rethinking

  8. This LA Map Has No Freeways

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    A bespectacled woman with gray-blonde long hair stands next to an old map with prominent red, yellow and green lines.

    A 1927 map tells stories of Los Angeles before widespread automobile adoption, including historical injustices

  9. A Maze Where Every Path Is Correct

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    A parent and child wander stand in an immersive room with mirrors and bright neon lights illuminating the floor and ceiling

    Kidspace’s Wired for Wonder fosters multisensory visitor experiences that provide open, curious—and sometimes smelly—connections to art and science

  10. Women Artists Ascending

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    A brunette woman wearing glasses stands in an art gallery next to one painting depicting a woman emerging from the sky, and a smaller one depicting a woman kneeling in prayer

    Art historian Paris Spies-Gans uncovers art’s unsung “sheroes,” moving them to the forefront of the canon