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Charles Lummis dancing with woman

Saving Songs of Old California

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Charles Lummis portrait

Larger Than Life: Charles Fletcher Lummis

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Don Ville shoes by Raul Ojeda

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Michael Hebert, "Fallujah" advisor

How War Veterans Use Art to Confront Trauma

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What Defines the 21st Century Museum?

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Public Fiction publications

Beyond Museum Walls: Public Fiction

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Dish served at MOCA's "Wolvesmouth: taxa" exhibition

Beyond Museum Walls: Wolvesmouth

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Romare Bearden, "Girl in the Garden"

Looking to the Future: Leimert Park

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Inside the Underground Museum

Beyond Museum Walls: The Underground Museum

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Rendering of a Blackbirds house cluster by architect Barbara Bestor

The Future of Housing in L.A.

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Los Angeles is Expanding Skyward

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Tourists at the Hollywood Sign

The Third Life of the Hollywood Sign

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Who was Charles Fletcher Lummis?

Charles Lummis -- writer, photographer, collector, museum founder, city librarian -- kept himself busy for decades spreading a gospel about indigenous and regional Southwestern history and culture.