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By: Scott Smith and Sandra Wells

COOL THINGS TO DO IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DURING THE CORONA CRISIS - PART 6
PHOENIX

If you're running out of new things to do locally, listed in the Official Travel Guide. including contemporary American work,
consider Phoenix, Arizona: it's just an hour by indigenous art, and masterpieces from Europe,
air away, making it almost a suburb, since you Highlights of Our Visit Asia, and Latin America (among them,
can barely get anywhere in L.A. in that time. The cities of Phoenix and L.A. each sprawl paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe and Claude
October to April the average highs are in the over 500 square miles, so a car is the easiest Monet). There is also an impressive collection
60s-80s, but May-September, while they are way to get around (Phoenix has 1.7 million of photographs and outstanding examples of
95-106, it is dry, not humid, so you can residents compared with the L.A.'s' 4 million; fashion design.
comfortably shade yourself outside, while Metro L.A. has 12 million, Metro Phoenix 5 Heard Museum https://heard.org/ is an inter-
everything inside is air conditioned. Maricopa million). There was so much to do in three days nationally-acclaimed educational center on the
County, where Phoenix is located, has had a that we'll dispense with the cute narrative and history and culture of Native Americans (aka
similar experience with COVID as L.A. County, get right to what makes the city unique (we American Indians, which some tribal members
but kept its museums and restaurants open didn't spend time wining, dining, or shopping, prefer, since anyone born in the U.S. could be
(mask, distancing, and sanitization compliance like most travel writers do, since we can designated a native). It has 44,000 objects in
is almost universal, but you do have to protect indulge that here, but VisitPhoenix lists those 12 galleries on everything from jewelry to food,
yourself from fools, as here). options). especially focused on 22 southwestern tribes,
with background to provide context for each
Phoenix is a vibrant New Southwest hub with a CENTRAL CITY item. Among these is an unrivalled collection of
"Diversity and Inclusion" link at the bottom of Phoenix Art Museum https://phxart.org/ is the 1,200 kachina (or katsina) spirit dolls, which
VisitPhoenix https://www.visitphoenix.com/ and Southwest's largest art museum, with more was particularly fascinating for us, having
Hispanic and gay chambers of commerce than 20,000 objects in its permanent collection, witnessed Hopi ceremonies. Heard empha-

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