This week's picks for LA architecture and design events

99% Preservation and 1% Densification: A Case for Urban Density along the Wilshire Corridor | June 27

Architects Thom Mayne and Eui-Sung Yi of the Now Institute and Morphosis Architecture present a proposal for a high-density, interconnected urban community along L.A.’s iconic Wilshire Corridor. Moderated by Mark Gold, UCLA associate vice chancellor of environment and sustainability.

The Wakanda Effect: Black Panther and the Black Radical Imagination | June 28

Using the blockbuster movie “Black Panther” as a starting point, this conversation will consider the trajectory of black radical thought, activism and the black political imagination as it has evolved since the 1960s. The talk will feature Steven Nelson, Professor of African and African American Art and Director of the UCLA African Studies Center, in conversation with local artists, activists, and scholars.

Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly | Open now until October 29

This new exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum features a collection of Ellsworth Kelly's lithographic prints along with two large-scale paintings. The exhibition “demonstrates the way in which the artist flattens the world around him.”

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