
‘Katy Grannan: The 99’ @ Fraenkel Gallery
The West in American culture has many meanings and associations tied to it, competing, but also combining to form that indelible image in the national consciousness. California, alone, stands at the center of that image, it being the golden Shangri-La that was the goal of so many settlers. Without it, and the discovery of actual gold here, the settlement of the western half of the United States would have been different, most likely. Many of the images of California are tied