It's All in Her Basket

gender. Like many Americans, Cosby will now face a new trial as soon as October, the the 12 jurors disagree judge said in declaring a mis- on questions of race, trial Saturday morning. The prosecutor said that sex and celebrity. he will press ahead with the same three counts of aggra- By Steven Zeitchik vated indecent assault, and that accuser Andrea Con- NORRISTOWN, Pa. — stand will take the stand The dozen jurors in the Bill again to testify that Cosby Cosby sexual assault trial drugged and molested her. spanned a diverse demo- The jurors did not speak graphic range: white men in with reporters, but their in- their 20s and 30s, middle- ability to reach a verdict, af- aged African Americans, ter more than 100 hours of elderly white women. testimony and deliberations With that diversity also in this suburban Philadel- came deadlock. On its sixth phia courtroom, brought day of deliberations, the jury home how divided opinions found itself unable to render are about Cosby — and Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times a verdict — like so much of about a lot more. JEANIE BUSS, controlling owner of the Lakers, sits next to the team’s championship trophies at her office in this country, unable to find To many, the former sit- El Segundo. Over the years, nothing has mattered more to her than the family business — her father’s legacy. consensus on charged ques- com dad and stand-up icon tions of race, age, power and [See Cosby, A11] IT’S ALL IN HER BASKET Now firmly in charge of the Lakers, Jeanie Buss faces her biggest test: reviving the NBA’s glamour franchise

Kevin Hagen Getty Images By Tania Ganguli BILL COSBY leaves court after the judge declared a mistrial because jurors couldn’t reach a verdict in his erry Buss often worried about his older Now, 20 years after the fatherly fretting, she is sexual assault case. The prosecutor plans to try again. daughter’s happiness, like many fathers do, the most powerful woman in sports. so when he considered promoting her to She is the controlling owner of the Los Angeles run the Great Western Forum, he thought Lakers, as her late father wished. Four months ago, of the toll such a demanding job would take. she fired her brother and the team’s 17-year general J “I don’t know if that’s a good life for her,” he manager on the same day, and installed trusted told a confidant. friend Earvin “Magic” Johnson as president of What he didn’t realize then, but learned over the basketball operations. Then she prevailed in an Democrats hustle next 15 years, was that nothing mattered more to ugly court battle with her two older brothers that Jeanie Buss than the family business — her father’s confirmed she will run the Lakers for the rest of her legacy. She was happiest when she was working to life. safeguard both. Over and over, she chose those Now she faces her greatest test: reviving the for key black vote over personal milestones. NBA’s glamour franchise, [See Buss, A14] in Georgia runoff

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Mark Boster Los Angeles Times A SCULPTURE by Daniel Joseph Martinez at LACMA’s new show, “Home — So Different, So Appealing,” tackles the controversial issue of Israeli settlements. ‘Home’ with a global touch

PST: LA/LA kicks off with a LACMA exhibition that ‘Home — So gives Latin American and Different, So Latino art room to explore. Appealing’

By Carolina A. Miranda Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles On the surface, the brightly When: Through Oct. 15 painted shed recently installed in Info: the galleries at the Los Angeles www.lacma.org County Museum of Art couldn’t seem more appealing. Sherbet-y Beach did not show work by Chi- shades of orange and yellow greet cano artists.) the viewer. Around the rear, a belt Representing the U.S. are fig- of camouflage employs candy ures such as Martinez as well as shades of purple. A door is ren- Puerto Rican American Juan dered a grassy green. Sánchez, who explores the political But study this structure for a bit status of Puerto Rico in his mixed and it becomes unsettling. media paintings (a timely subject), The building is split down the and Carmen Argote, a Mexican middle, as if it’s about to fall apart. American artist from Los Angeles, And if the design has echoes of the who has turned the rug from her familiar it’s because you may have childhood home into a massive seen something like it on the news: wall sculpture that plays with form The piece is a scale replica of “Una- and memory. bomber” Ted Kaczynski’s cabin in In the museum’s gardens, an in- the Montana woods — except this stallation by Cuban American art- one is painted in colors from Mark Boster Los Angeles Times ist María Elena González exam- Martha Stewart’s Signature paint “ONE SELLS us an illusion. The other sells us terror,” says Martinez of the two opposing figures ines the architecture of public collection. being conjured in his piece “The House America Built,” also part of the LACMA exhibition. housing in the United States. Her The sculpture is a work by L.A. piece, looking like a giant magic artist Daniel Joseph Martinez and to expect for the rest of the series, it show that was “about” Latin back to the early republic. The carpet, depicts to scale the layout it unites, in one fractured monu- has set the bar high. America. structure was made of wood and of the apartments at Nickerson ment, the legacies of two highly rec- Few museum exhibitions syn- “Instead, we decided to set adobe, in the Spanish style, but the Gardens in Watts. ognizable American figures. thesize currents in contemporary everything aside and focus on the wallpaper added after independ- As with other artists in the “One is Kaczynski,” Martinez Latin American art. And the ones works that had stuck with us,” Nor- ence is English. It marks a moment show, her concerns are as local as says. “He believes that technology that do often center on questions of iega says. “And the concept that in which Colombia was searching they are international. is a threat, so he blows up scientists identity — be it ethnic or regional emerged when we looked at those for a new identity apart from Ramirez says that the historic — homegrown American terror- — or around a particular artistic pieces was ‘Home.’ ” Spain. All of this she presents as a divide between the Latino and the ism. And there is Martha Stewart, movement, such as abstraction. Ramirez points to an installa- 4-inch-wide slice of a room that Latin American has had to do with who advances hypercapitalism. “Home” explodes that idea. tion of a dozen illuminated light looks like a laboratory specimen on issues of class. “Latin American “One sells us an illusion,” says The exhibition features roughly strings by the late Cuban Ameri- an architectural scale. artists are seen as citizens of na- the artist, gesturing at the bright 100 works by some 40 artists from can artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a “From a piece of the room, you tions,” she says. “Latino artists are citrus colors on his broken build- all over the continent — including 1993 work called “Untitled can reconstruct not just the room seen as citizens of a marginalized ing. “The other sells us terror.” Latino artists from various corners (North).” “People think of it as but the house and the city and the group.” “The House America Built,” as of the U.S. And it shows the ways in minimalist work,” she says. “But country and what was going on at But in the age of the Internet the piece is titled, is part of the new which these artists, who span sev- really it’s about the lights that you any given time,” she says. “It fits and globalized everything, the LACMA exhibition “Home — So eral generations (there are works see when you are headed north.” with the show, which offers a trans- strict separation no longer makes Different, So Appealing,” which dating to the1950s) have explored a In other words, the process of versal look at the concept of home.” sense — especially with Latin brings together artists from range of global concerns. migration — the search for home. Other galleries tackle the urban American artists pursuing degrees throughout the Americas who are This is not a show in which Lat- The exhibition, as Ramirez ob- realities of Latin American cities. in the U.S., and Latino artists trav- using elements of the domestic ino artists just dwell on being Lat- serves, is not a strict chronological A 2014-16 sculpture — modeled eling to Latin America for exhib- (say, a cabin) to comment on larger ino. It is about ideas: ones that flow survey of important works by im- on Jan van Eyck’s 15th-century itions and residencies. social and political issues. In the from south to north and east to portant artists. Instead, it func- Ghent altarpiece — by the contem- The show — along with others case of Martinez’s shed, the state of west and vice versa. The show en- tions more as “a constellation” — porary Argentine collective Mon- that will be part of PST: LA/LA, the homeland. gages issues such as colonialism, “putting works in dialogue with dongo, for example, portrays such as the Hammer’s “Radical “Home is a very broad concept,” migration, inequity, vernacular each other across generations and Buenos Aires’ glittering downtown Women” — is looking to close the says co-curator Mari Carmen Ra- construction (of the sort that pow- countries” in ways that connect on within view of the shantytown gap between the Latino and the mirez. “It’s something we associate ers many Latin American urban the level of ideas or materials. known as Villa 31. In the same Latin American. with the everyday. But artists use it centers) and the ways in which “We wanted to see what work gallery hangs a piece by Antonio “Latino artists have had a low to communicate narratives that architecture can serve as a tool of talked to other work,” Noriega Berni, also Argentine, who in the visibility in Latin American cir- have been marginalized or re- the state. adds. “We saw work talking to work 1960s made assemblages out of de- cles,” Tompkins Rivas says. pressed.” A second prominent sculpture from other countries — even if they tritus that chronicled slum life. The curators’ aim is to change The show is the first of the Pa- by Martinez, for example, looks at might be 50 years apart.” A couple of rooms over, a large that. “Our agenda,” Ramirez says, cific Standard Time: Los Angeles/ how the urban design of cities such A pair of wall hangings by Ra- installation by prominent Mexican “is that over the next decade, that Latin America exhibitions, the re- as Irvine, with their dead-end phael Montañez Ortiz, a U.S. artist contemporary artist Abraham people see the affinities between gional series funded in part by the streets and gated communities, in- of mixed Caribbean and Mexican Cruzvillegas explores the related these groups.” Getty Foundation and more infor- fluenced the layout of Israeli settle- heritage who made some of his key idea of autoconstrucción, or self- “Home” represents an intrigu- mally known as PST: LA/LA. ments in Palestinian territories in works in the 1960s, for example, construction. Cruzvillegas grew up ing argument for the more nu- “Home” is the early outlier in the the Middle East. hang adjacent to an installation by in a squatter community outside of anced ways in which U.S. institu- series, set to officially debut in the “Israelis took the concept of Colombian artist Leyla Cardenas, Mexico City in which everything tions can present work by Latino fall, when an estimated 70 cultural gated communities, which are al- who has been active for just over a was built, over time, by the resi- and Latin American artists, whose institutions around Southern Cali- ready militarized — it has cameras, decade. Both pry apart domestic dents. It offers an intriguing coun- representation in major museums fornia will have programming re- it has security,” explains Martinez, settings to examine their psycholo- terpoint to Martinez’s sculptures is often weak. lated to Latino and Latin Ameri- “and they took those designs and gical and historical roots. about Israeli settlements: the cre- “I’m excited for all of these ex- can culture. militarized them even further.” Ortiz’s pieces, which he labels ation of home from the ground up hibitions, for the attention they will This will include an exhibition “Home” was organized by Ra- “Archaeological Finds,” consist of rather than top down. bring to Latino and Latin Ameri- about pre-Columbian societies at mirez, a curator of Latin American dismembered furnishings that he Also intriguing is the exhib- can art,” Tompkins Rivas says. “It the Getty Center and work by art at the Museum of Fine Arts pries apart in violent acts. Carde- ition’s ready blending of the work of might convince museums to fur- avant-garde female artists at the Houston, as well as Chon Noriega, nas uses elements of old archi- Latin American and U.S. Latino ther integrate these ideas into Hammer Museum — as well as of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Re- tecture to conduct what amounts artists — breaking with a long-held their programs.” shows on Chicano muralism, search Center, and Pilar Tompkins to archaeological digs. curatorial convention that fre- For curators around the coun- South American kinetic art and Rivas, director of the Vincent Price Taking slivers of a decaying19th quently displays the work of the try, perhaps it’s a good time to pay historic illustrations of Latin Art Museum at East Los Angeles century house from Bogotá, she’s two separately. (For much of its ex- Los Angeles a visit. American flora, among others. College. In conceiving the show, peeled away layers of wallpaper to istence, for example, the Museum If “Home” is a harbinger of what the three say they avoided doing a reveal decorative elements dating of Latin American Art in Long [email protected]