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At an event exploring the legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe's legacy hosted by Zócalo Public Square/Getty “Open Art” at the West Hollywood Council Chambers, panelist Jonathan Weinberg argued that the photographer "mainstreamed and made slick a certain kind of presentation of the homoerotic." Weinberg, a painter, art historian, and author of Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art, was joined on the panel by an author, two curators and a photography collector. Though the controversy that began in 1989 over a traveling solo exhibit with homoerotic and sadomasochistic themes gained Mapplethorpe significant fame, the panelists agreed that the ongoing interest in his work demonstrates a provocation far deeper than shock.

Time magazine Washington correspondent and author of Broad Influence Jay Newton-Small details how women in power can pave the way for other women at the Zocalo Public Square event "Are Women Changing the Way Institutions Are Run?" At the lecture held at Los Angeles' Goethe-Institut, Newton-Small said that a relatively low percentage of women could achieve "critical mass," an inflection point at an organization, as long as several of those women are in leadership positions.

Time magazine Washington correspondent and author of Broad Influence Jay Newton-Small details how women in power can pave the way for other women at the Zocalo Public Square event "Are Women Changing the Way Institutions Are Run?" At the lecture held at Los Angeles' Goethe-Institut, Newton-Small said that a relatively low percentage of women could achieve "critical mass," an inflection point at an organization, as long as several of those women are in leadership positions.

At a Zocalo Public Square event at the Skirball Cultural Center, Arizona State University President Michael Crow and Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee—author of the new book The Gene: An Intimate History and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer—explored how what it means to be a human being is changing, both biologically and culturally. They wrestled with questions about how our increasing knowledge of genetics and our ability to manipulate our genes are altering notions of who we are, and posing new questions that require new language and new regulations to answer.

At a Zocalo Public Square event at the Skirball Cultural Center, Arizona State University President Michael Crow and Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee—author of the new book The Gene: An Intimate History and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer—explored how what it means to be a human being is changing, both biologically and culturally. They wrestled with questions about how our increasing knowledge of genetics and our ability to manipulate our genes are altering notions of who we are, and posing new questions that require new language and new regulations to answer.

At the sixth annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize event at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, 2016 winner Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, talked with Zócalo Publisher Gregory Rodriguez about how digital connection is undermining our capacity to be alone, our sense of self, our empathy, and even our ability to love. The Zócalo Book Prize is awarded to the nonfiction book that best enhances our understanding of community and the forces that strengthen or undermine human connectedness.

At the sixth annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize event at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, 2016 winner Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, talked with Zócalo Publisher Gregory Rodriguez about how digital connection is undermining our capacity to be alone, our sense of self, our empathy, and even our ability to love. The Zócalo Book Prize is awarded to the nonfiction book that best enhances our understanding of community and the forces that strengthen or undermine human connectedness.

A college degree used to be a "golden ticket" to employment. This is no longer the case. Why are millennials struggling to launch their careers? At a Zócalo Public Square event at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, Jeffrey J. Selingo, author of There Is Life After College and former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, explained why college students aren't getting the skills they need for today's economy.

A college degree used to be a "golden ticket" to employment. This is no longer the case. Why are millennials struggling to launch their careers? At a Zócalo Public Square event at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, Jeffrey J. Selingo, author of There Is Life After College and former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, explained why college students aren't getting the skills they need for today's economy.

The color black is associated with a host of contradictory and controversial associations, including luxury, death, sin, style, and race. At a Zócalo/Getty “Open Art” event moderated by Peter Tokofsky, a Getty education specialist and adjunct member of UCLA’s German faculty, Harvard art historian Sarah E. Lewis, paint manufacturer Katrin Trautwein, and The Story of Black’s author John Harvey took on the ways that black is more than just a color.