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If you are looking for a well-planned gift, what better starting point than a museum? There is a good reason for a store run by a local cultural institution: your holiday shopping can help fund programming and operations throughout the year. With one notable exception, these products are not available through Amazon, which makes them even more special.

The artist’s hand can be seen in every ceramic work of the Grassel Park non-profit organization, which aims to empower women, transgender and non-binary prisoners previously imprisoned through crafts, community, and collective healing. Sexual power. These works-bowls, plates, and cups that can be safely placed in the oven, microwave, and dishwasher-use subtle glazes, ranging from breezy beach houses to rustic mountain huts. This 6.5-inch diameter bowl is one of the people's pottery products in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art store.

Some friends you will make exotic pickled figs or delicious rhubarb and kumquat jams for them in the kitchen. Then your friends who bought cool cans for them. For the latter, we can recommend the small jar of Yoshitomo Nara from the LACMA store. Do the recipient a favor and leave a note in it stating that the Nara exhibition will be on display at the museum until January 2nd. Los Angeles County residents can enter for free after 3pm on weekdays

They are a different kind of street art: colorful banners that once hung on light poles throughout the city. The LA Phil store sells several versions, including the 2014 banner, a cool abstraction with a Hollywood bowl shell in interesting tones from the 90s. Each banner is 8 feet high, 3 feet wide, and double-sided. Buy two and you can see the complete design on the wall.

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Joyful, spiritual, powerful, adventurous, painful emotions and inspiring. Times music critic Mark Sweed used these words to describe the rare performance of the four symphonies by the composer Charles Ives by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2020. The Ives Cycle is another sign of the music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel's development as the most important conductor in the world, and these concerts are now available as Deutsche Grammaphon recordings. For enthusiasts who hate the compression quality of streaming music, Ives is sold as a two-CD set through the LA Phil store.

With the popular Academy Film Museum now open, and the big excavation next door to LACMA is underway, the old kids in the neighborhood have some new love: La Brea Tar Pit. The plan to redesign the parks and museums will preserve the beloved picture of the glass fiber mammoth baby sliding into the tar lake when crying. This saber-toothed cat mug complements the California bear flag design, reflecting the old-school coolness of the destination. Maybe for people with paleo diet?

Breaking news! This is an exclusive product of Hello Kitty: California Science Center provides perfect pins for STEM teenagers, and the soft side looks cute. This kitten, who is not a cat, is depicted as a chemist holding an Erlenmeyer flask and a test tube; as an astronaut in a white EVA space suit, or as an Endeavour pilot wearing a senior crew escape suit for liftoff (Of course there is a matching orange hair bow), and other scenes.

Do you know anyone likes "Blue Boy"? Then buy it. Maybe not the original 18th-century masterpiece of Thomas Gainsborough, which is owned by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Garden, but a copy. The museum shop sells prints of art from the Huntington collection. For the plant lovers in your life, perhaps it is the lovely print of "Yellow Poppy" created by Emma Homan Thayer around 1887. Or a shiny blue satin print of the famous boy, available in four sizes.

You can search for Etsy and EBay, or head to the Craft Contemporary store, which was formerly the Los Angeles Museum of Craft and Folk Art. There you can find Rockwell Kent's antique Our America Ceramics, one of the most outstanding graphic artists of his time. Working at Vernon Kilns south of DTLA, Kent designed plates, bowls, cups and saucers that capture the sense of adventure in a new field and the emerging spirit of an industrialized country-and the workers behind it. Our favorite are the cups and saucers from the 1930s, full of retro flavors.

The publicity is eye-catching: According to Crazy Crayons, more than 60 tons of crayons are made from petroleum-based wax every day, and the company cooperates with the National Crayon Recycling Program to turn unwanted crayons into new designs. Think of dinosaurs, zoo animals, and spinning flowers, all of which are available through Craft Contemporary. For budding artists, the rainbow of colors is wrapped in a pure green curriculum.

When you can wear it, why step into one of the artist's infinite mirror rooms? The Broad store has collaborated with Yayoi Kusama Studio to launch some exclusive gifts, including this silk scarf, which evokes many things-soft focus Christmas lights, brilliant abstract highway traffic, not to mention the immersive style of Yayoi Kusama" The soul a million light years away". "

When we rush into the next phase of pandemic life, maybe it's time for a little Barbara Kruger? Kruger printed simple, familiar messages in bold red, and expressed her iconic blunt language and bold graphic design on another canvas: the face. It is part of a mask series designed by MOCA artists, which also includes works by Yoko Ono, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Hank Willis Thomas, and Alex Israel.

Put on a hat from the museum to make your pop music instantly fashionable, so cool, don’t bother to spell out its full name on the hat. Dad hats are available in two colors, white on black or black on black, with adjustable snaps on the back. We like the variegated gray with a striking red B. Fitting caps are available in three sizes.

Can a city have a color palette? Julia Luke’s poster answered with a resounding affirmative. "Los Angeles in the Evening" does not have the outline of palm trees, but its sherbet hue is undoubtedly the sunset of our beautiful city. You will feel the same way about Luke's "Los Angeles in the morning", "Los Angeles at noon" and "Los Angeles at night". The 14-inch x 22-inch poster is a limited-edition screen-printed work produced by the Hammer Museum Store.

Hawaiian designer Sig Zane specially made this sturdy cotton handbag for the upcoming exhibition called "Dress Code" at the Ottery Museum in the western United States. This show tells about the charm, history and meaning of Western clothing, and Zane's blue floral pattern carries some aloha wherever he goes. The Autry logo is printed on the back of the handbag, so you can remind passersby which gift shop sells it.

The art lies not only in the lovely design of this delicate bird perched on a slender branch, but also in the process of making this 24-carat gold and enamel brooch. Lost wax casting-a technique for casting a single metal object from a wax pattern-can be traced back nearly 6000 years ago. This exquisite jewelry requires an equally exquisite scarf, designed specifically for Getty.

This small black porcelain plate has a big-eyed owl framed by an olive branch, and is the perfect container for a mixed olive appetizer with a holiday cheese plate. The design of the owl-a symbol of Athens and a common pattern on ancient coins, vases and jars-was inspired by similar patterns on the Getty Villa series kettle.

You can't resist the gravitational pull of this cute baby bib, which uses the shiny gold design worn by Captain Kirk in "Star Trek". Even when the baby suffocated with Martian red pasta sauce or alien green avocado, Trekkie's parents would be amused by the gift. This is one of the products of the pop-up shop of the "Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds" exhibition, which will be held at the Skobol Cultural Center on February 20th.

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Craig Nakano is the Associate Editor of the Entertainment and Arts Department of The Times, working with colleagues covering film, television, music, art, and Hollywood businesses.

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