Elisa Wouk Almino is the editor in chief of Image, the magazine on L.A. style, fashion and art at the Los Angeles Times. She was formerly the deputy editor and has been with the paper since 2022. Prior to joining Image, Wouk Almino was a senior editor at Hyperallergic, where she launched and ran the art magazine’s L.A. bureau. She has previously edited and written for various publications including Words Without Borders, n+1, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Rizzoli, Guernica and the Nation. At one point, she gave gallery tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught art criticism and literary translation at UCLA Extension and Catapult.
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The way the city is perceived is often different than how it’s lived.
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Image’s March “Outside” issue celebrates the Los Angeles outdoors, the many lives to be lived under its unencumbered sky.
Del Vaz Projects and Frieze hosted a party that recreated Arnold’s otherworldly home, once likened to Andy Warhol’s Factory.
It’s not surprising that Image’s Revelry issue turned into a high-key music issue. What better way to celebrate each other and ourselves?
For all the talk of this city being alienating and people being unwilling to commute, I have witnessed something different.
These stories emanate a time in our lives when being practical wasn’t the most important thing. They embrace abundance, the most comforting of luxuries.