The Los Angeles School District Will Whitewash A Mural Accused Of Being Racist
(ArtsJournal)

The mural, by Brooklyn artist Beau Stanton, features Ava Gardner with a radiating starburst behind her head. And in a 16-page letter sent to the LA Unified School District last month, a neighborhood coalition president objected strenuously to the starburst as a symbol of Imperial Japan. The Times‘ art critic: “Given the motif´s architectural roots in […]