VM Recommends - LA Edition
This month’s VM Recommends brings us selections from our Los Angeles Managing Partner, Daphne Pierre Bishop.
What is a book you would recommend?
I recently read Yellowface, a novel by RF Kuang, and I continue to think about weeks after I finished it. Yellowface tells the story of college friends – a White woman and an Asian woman – who become professional writers and their experiences in the publishing industry. It takes a deep look at the complexity of identity, intra- and inter-group dynamics, and the impacts of various privileges and disadvantages – issues that I think about all the time as a neutral workplace investigator.
What is one of your favorite places to visit in LA?
I never tire of visiting The Broad contemporary art museum in downtown LA. The architecture is a work of art in itself, and the collection includes Instagram sensations such as Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms. I recently saw Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody, a stunning 10-gallery exhibit that combines Haring’s iconic art and activism with the music and fashion of the era. As someone who grew up in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis, I found this exhibit simultaneously moving and joyful.
Daphne Pierre Bishop at The Broad Contemporary Art Museum
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