It's Wednesday. As experiential art grows increasingly popular, exhibits to visit in California. Plus, the latest on the Orange County shooting. |
 | | Glenn Kaino spoke at the opening celebration for "A Forest for the Trees" in Los Angeles last week.Charley Gallay/Getty Images For A Forest For The Trees |
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Perhaps, as our interactions are more and more mediated by screens, you're seeking to immerse yourself in the tangible world, to awaken all your senses. Or, maybe, you just want a cool photo for social media. |
Either way, California can satisfy your craving. |
Today, I'm sharing a selection of immersive art exhibits around the Golden State: |
This show, which opened last week, leads visitors through a surreal forest inside a 28,000-square-foot Boyle Heights warehouse. The forest includes actual redwood trees, as well as handmade sculptures, animatronic robots and glimmering installations. |
Its creator and director, the Los Angeles artist Glenn Kaino, wants to push audiences to reimagine their relationship with the natural world. He told The Los Angeles Times that the project was his most ambitious yet. |
"I feel like I've worked my entire career to build the skills and the tools to even try to conceive of this idea, let alone to hopefully accomplish it with a level of quality," he said. |
The works of the iconic Mexican artist are coming to life in nine cities across the nation. The show loosely traces Kahlo's life and showcases her famous self-portraits and vivid surrealist pieces. |
This mind-bending spectacle has drawn thousands of tourists and become an Instagram phenomenon since it first opened in 2019. |
Visitors arrive at the field at dusk, "when thousands of solar-powered glass orbs on stems, created by the artist Bruce Munro, enfold visitors in an earthbound aurora borealis of shifting hues," my colleague Patricia Leigh Brown wrote in The Times. |
"The subtly changing patterns of this light safari, activated by a nebula of fiber-optic cables attached to hidden projectors, seem to inspire a cathedral-like awe among ticket-holders." |
 | | "Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience" exhibit in New York last year.Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times |
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Yet another van Gogh show is coming to Sacramento in November, with tickets on sale now. The exhibit bills itself as "the largest immersive experience in the country." |
If you read one story, make it this |
 | | Golden State's Stephen Curry going up for a shot against Dallas's Luka Doncic during a game earlier this year.Kelley L Cox/USA Today Sports, via Reuters |
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- N.B.A. West: What to expect when the Golden State Warriors face off against the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday for Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.
- Diablo Canyon: Many environmental and antinuclear organizations are against extending the life of California's last operating nuclear power plant, The Associated Press reports.
- California condors: Scientists have found new and mysterious DDT chemicals accumulating in California condors, The Los Angeles Times reports.
- Formula shortage: The nationwide baby formula shortage has prompted warnings from California officials, LAist reports.
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- Church shooting: A prosecutor said the man accused of opening fire in an Orange County church over the weekend wanted to "execute in cold blood as many people in that room as possible," The Associated Press reports.The Los Angeles Times profiled Dr. John Cheng, who was killed in the shooting after he put himself in the line of fire to prevent others from being shot. "He sacrificed himself so others could live," said Orange County's district attorney, Todd Spitzer.
- L.A. mayor's race: The Los Angeles city attorney, Mike Feuer, dropped out of the race for mayor on Tuesday and endorsed Representative Karen Bass, KTLA reports.
- Angel Stadium: An Orange County judge put the sale of Angel Stadium on hold amid an ongoing public corruption investigation into the mayor of Anaheim, The Los Angeles Times reports.
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- A chance of fire: A large swath of Northern California, including the Sacramento Valley, is on fire weather watch starting Thursday.
- Public trial: An appeals court overturned a man's firearms conviction after ruling that an Oakland court's Covid protocols had violated his right to a public trial.
- Cannabis tax: A proposed ballot measure in Oakland would divert cannabis tax revenue to pay for services for victims of the war on drugs, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
- Goose poop: Foster City residents plan to protest a proposal to euthanize hundreds of Canada geese to decrease their population and their fecal matter, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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"The park originates from the division of the Mission Santa Cruz pasture lands in the 1830s, becoming the Mexican Rancho Refugio, before the dairyman D.D. Wilder acquired a significant piece of the land, becoming today's Wilder Ranch State Park. Many of the ranch houses, including several adobes, have been preserved and restored and their history can be discovered when exploring the park. The area's trails allow for pleasant strolls, hikes, and biking routes along the cliffs. The Wilder and Strawberry beaches and their surrounding rock formations are often occupied by hundreds of resting seals while giving way to stunning coastal views. The park is a habitat for various species of birds, with ocean low tides uncovering the park's further richness of sea stars, urchins, whales, and sea otters." |
Tell us about your favorite places to visit in California. Email your suggestions to CAtoday@nytimes.com. We'll be sharing more in upcoming editions of the newsletter. |
What do you want to know about California's June primary election? Email us your questions at CAToday@nytimes.com. |
And before you go, some good news |
After arriving at their friends' nuptials in Burbank, Dr. Vivian Esther Yee and Joshua Kent Ma soon found out they would be paired together as bridesmaid and groomsman. |
The two, who had not met before the 2017 wedding, also learned that they were the wedding party's only single members. |
Their friends' matchmaking worked. Last month, almost five years after that first meeting, Yee and Ma had their own wedding. |
Thanks for reading. I'll be back tomorrow. — Soumya |
Briana Scalia and Mariel Wamsley contributed to California Today. You can reach the team at CAtoday@nytimes.com. |
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