{"product_id":"a-talk-with-lyra-kilston","title":"Taking the Cure: A Talk with Lyra Kilston","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn illustrated talk on the 19th-century health seekers, who fled overcrowded cities in pursuit of nature cures. Starting with the rural sanatorium movement in Europe, she then focuses on the healthful beacon of California, which lured people with illnesses and their (often dubious) healers in droves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eLyra Kilston is \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ea writer and editor in Los Angeles focused on architecture, ecology, design, art, urbanism, oddballs, and lesser-known histories.\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 19.6px;\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLyra's first book, \u003ci\u003eSun Seekers: The Cure of California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/atelier-editions.com\/store\/sun-seekers-the-cure-of-california\"\u003eAtelier Éditions\u003c\/a\u003e, 2019), looks at three moments in Southern California history and the many eccentric newcomers—from fervent nature-cure healers to modern architects to barefoot vegetarian hermits—who built up the region’s renown as a center for healthy, natural lifestyles long before the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer writing has appeared in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, Next City, Artforum, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWired, TIME, Hyperallergic, Art in America, ICON, frieze,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003emuseum and biennial publications, and inspired an award-winning KCET documentary. She is an editor for the Getty Museum, a consulting editor for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHyperallergic,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand on the Advisory Council of Minerva Projects. Previously she was on the research and curatorial team of the architecture exhibition\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOverdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990\u003c\/em\u003e, presented at the Getty Museum and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003eLike Southern Californians of a century past, she enjoys curative sun baths.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Likeminds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40880101687476,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/7482\/2324\/products\/lyra_2ab7eacc-611d-45b2-bad5-3255e05d6fe2.png?v=1636297638","url":"https:\/\/nunu-school.myshopify.com\/products\/a-talk-with-lyra-kilston","provider":"Index","version":"1.0","type":"link"}