Frances Anderton is the host of DnA: Design and Architecture, monthly on KCRW and KCRW.com. She is also a full-time producer of KCRW's national and local current affairs shows, To The Point, and Which Way, LA?.
In addition, Ms. Anderton is the L.A. Editor for Dwell Magazine. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and many other publications on Los Angeles design and architecture. Frances is a frequent speaker and moderator at cultural institutions, including REDCAT, the Hammer UCLA Museum, the Skirball Institute, the LA Forum, and the A+D Museum; she is on the Advisory Board of the L.A. Forum.
LOCATION: Santa Monica
WHAT INSPIRES ME: Angeleno attitude
FAVORITE PLACE TO GET AWAY (from it all) IN MY AREA: Santa Monica Swim Center
FAVORITE WRITERS: Michael Connelly, Aravind Ariga, Christian Lander, Marjane Satrapi
ARTIST/CREATIVE YOU’D WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH: Chuck Lorre
MOST OVER-HYPED ARTIST: Instagram (okay, maybe not an artist per se but they say it makes photos into art)
PERFECT SOUNDTRACK FOR WRITING: Birdsong
WHY I LOVE WHERE I LIVE: When I was growing up in Georgian Bath, I fantasized about living in a 1960s apartment with sliding patio doors. Now I live in one (co-designed by Frank Gehry), and it’s six blocks from the ocean, and it’s cycling distance from work, and it’s walking distance from my daughter’s school and shops and the farmers market, and it has good neighbors, and it has a soulful pepper tree shading a deck that’s large enough to entertain friends and is home to three ravens, a dray of squirrels and a visiting possum. What’s not to love?
ART YOU MAKE (IF YOU MAKE ANY...): Handmade stuff: cut-paper posters, ceramics, home décor, crazy cakes
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RSS: KCET Artbound
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Architecture/ Design
California becomes an international export by redefining the concept of city and home.
Community Arts
Through workshops, education and placed based projects, art is the connective tissue of a community.
Cultural Politics
Funding bubbles, cultural deserts and the politics of access to the arts in the 21st century.
Film & Media Arts
At the shadow of the entertainment industry, video artists and underground filmmakers take a stand.
Literature
Noir, sunshine and dystopia create a multi-ethnic narrative that is read, watched and admired around the globe.
Multi-Disciplinary
Multi-hyphenate works that combine disciplines, remix dogmas, and reinvent the wheel.
Music
A dialogue between cultures, the music of our state serves up the California dream like no other artform.
Visual Arts
Breaking away from the European and New York vanguard, California reinvents the art world.
