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

VISUAL Posted: December 17, 2018 5:00 am

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 Art Deco design, the prominence of stylized light beams in nostalgic wall murals is hardly surprising.” – Los Angeles Times

VISUAL Published: 12.13.18

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