Michael Janofsky

Los Angeles

US Correspondent at Perspective Magazine

Lifelong journalist who sent most of my career as a New York Times correspondent.

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Articles

At the Autry Museum, an Exhibition About Black People in the West

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Michael Janofsky

An upcoming exhibition at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles and an earlier one at the Witte Museum in San Antonio reveal the roles of Black cowboys in the early American West. This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. Children in 1950s America grew up with a distinct image of the Old West through television heroes like the Lone Ranger, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp and Hopalong Cassidy.
Ai Weiwei Brings His Largest Show Ever to Seattle

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Michael Janofsky |Grant Hindsley

A show now at the Seattle Art Museum is the largest in the U.S. in the 40-year career of the renowned Chinese artist. The exhibition "Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei" is on display at the Seattle Art Museum. Here his "Forever Bicycles," which has 42 bicycles welded together, references how bicycles were once ubiquitous in Chinese cities. Credit...
Fight madness with more madness

2 months ago | perspectivemedia.com | Michael Janofsky |Rowan Pelling

Most of my friends and I live in a bubble (Los Angeles) within a bubble (California). With our deadly fires finally extinguished, we’ve turned our attention to the fires in Washington. The gutting of the federal workforce, tariffs on friends and foes and wild claims on foreign lands as our own, all in the name of making America (ahem) great again. These moves are unprecedented, maybe illegal and certainly ill-conceived.
Long division | Perspective Media International

Nov 13, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Michael Janofsky

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks, Jews, Asians, Muslims and queer people during Donald Trump’s first presidency that he moved to Mexico in 2020.
At the San Francisco Modern Art Museum, Using Sports to Explore Social Trends

Oct 26, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Janofsky

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. "Guernica" hangs prominently on the seventh floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, its haphazard forms, oversized limbs and frenetic energy urging visitors to pause and contemplate what it all means. Oh, this isn't that "Guernica," Picasso's monochromatic antiwar painting of 1937 that hangs in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
See the Ancient Creatures That Might Have Been Beneath Your Feet

Oct 24, 2024 | virginislandsdailynews.com | Michael Janofsky

SAN DIEGO — “We found something.”Jesse Shelmire, a paleontologist with the San Diego Natural History Museum, stood over the partial tooth of a gomphothere, an elephant-like creature that roamed the area several million years ago. It presented itself amid 40 acres of dirt that the city is turning into a community park just north of Tijuana, Mexico. The tooth sat where a basketball court is planned and would have been lost to bulldozers had Shelmire not identified it.
A glimmer of hope for US Democrats

Jul 23, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Michael Janofsky |Rowan Pelling

THE PERSPECTIVE NEWSLETTERMICHAEL JANOFSKYThe dam broke without warning on a quiet Sunday afternoon. After weeks of resisting party leaders, major donors and average voters urging President Joe Biden to forsake his re-election campaign, he finally acquiesced. He announced he would finish his current term but not seek a second and offered a fulsome endorsement of his vice president, Kamala Harris, to become the Democratic nominee. That quickly, the 2024 presidential campaign turned inside out.
Blast from the past: Exploring atomic bomb history beyond Los Alamos

Apr 28, 2024 | dtnext.in | Michael Janofsky

By Michael JanofskyNEW YORK: The blockbuster movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer might have left the impression that only New Mexico was involved in developing America's atomic bomb. Hardly. Neighboring Nevada played a vital role, too. And the Atomic Museum in this glittery town known for gambling and big-name entertainment will tell you all about it and more.
Exploring Atomic Bomb History Beyond Los Alamos

Apr 26, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Janofsky

This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel. The blockbuster movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer might have left the impression that only New Mexico was involved in developing America's atomic bomb. Hardly. Neighboring Nevada played a vital role, too. And the Atomic Museum in this glittery town known for gambling and big-name entertainment will tell you all about it - and more.
Defensive positions

Mar 31, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Michael Janofsky

When I was a kid and the Cold War was in full bloom, we were terrified of the Russians. We didn’t know what it meant, exactly, but our teachers did. They showed us cartoons with ogre-looking creatures – the Red Menace – reaching across the ocean to beat us to a pulp. Every so often, we were instructed to “duck and cover”, the practice drill for diving under our ancient wooden desks: protection from the nuclear bomb that grownups were certain was heading our way. Sure.