Thirty years before the Palisades and Eaton fires started in Los Angeles, Todd Haynes introduced us to Carol, a wealthy and environmentally-afflicted Valley housewife played by Julianne Moore, in his 1995 film "Safe." It is difficult, within the film, to make clear separations between where domestic spaces end and medical spaces start. Chasing a diagnosis for her mysterious illness, Carol floats aimlessly across Southern California's Sanitarium Belt, residing in the buckle. Emma Dexter explores architectures of illness and health in and around Los Angeles, from the postmodern interiors and midcentury retreat of Haynes' cinematic universe in "Safe" to Neutra's Lovell Health House in Los Feliz and the ruins of Rockhaven Sanitarium outside Glendale.

In the midst of our economic and political crisis, we must assume that art history will be remade. New points of origin will be invented, probably starting with the 1960s instead of the 1860s. Fluxus, Archigram, Conceptual art, Minimalism, Pop—1968 and “all that”—as well as sixties performance and video are now understood as the beginning, not the finale.