Zócalo Book Prize: Winners List

Winners of the Zócalo Book Prize
Sponsored by Zócalo Public Square
Founded by Gregory Rodriguez

2017
Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University
Ghetto:  The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

2016
Sherry Turkle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reclaiming Conversation:  The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

2015
Danielle Allen, Harvard Univesity
Our Declaration:  A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

2014
Ethan Zuckerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rewire:  Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

2013
Jonathan Haidt, New York University
The Righteous Mind:  Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

2012
Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation

2011
Peter Lovenheim, New York Times
In the Neighborhood:  The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time

Link to Website:  http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/03/31/princeton-sociologist-mitchell-duneier-wins-2017-zocalo-book-prize/inquiries/prizes/

Art in Los Angeles: Great Time

Zocalo Public Square sponsored a panel discussion in Los Angeles Grand Park on the topics of How Can L.A.’s Art Museums Thrive?  One of the panelists was Los Angeles County Museum of Art Director Michael Govan. Govan had two good comments lon the state of art in Los Angeles. (Rough quotes.)

"If you include the visual arts in Hollywood along with the other artists, photographers, and sculptors, there are more artists in Los Angeles now than in any city ever in history."

"Los Angeles museums are often compared to New York musuems. Most Los Angeles museums are much younger and only now coming into their own. Los Angeles museums now are growing and evolving like the New York museums of the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's."

Govan feels that overall this is a great time to be involved in art in Los Angeles.