Over our first season, we published hundreds of articles, produced twenty-two short documentaries, and aired three hour-long television episodes. We traversed the cultural landscapes sprawling across our state from the metropolises to the towns, between the coast and the desert, across the border, and into the mountains. On New Year's Day, we will be airing a three-hour Artbound Marathon which will feature all of our episodes mashed up into one explosion of Southern California arts and culture. But for the next few days, we will be reliving some of the most read articles by our contributors, breaking down the most popular articles by county and discipline. We hope you enjoy catching up on all the artistic discussions and activities that make California the creative capital of the world!
Siempre es Hoy: Capturing the Latin Alternative Moment
Twenty years ago, musician Emilio Morales started La Banda Elástica as a fanzine. It featured huge Latin alternative acts at a time when no other American publication did.
Prison Dancer: A Transmedia Musical Hopes to Transcend Borders
In 2007, a viral video of 1500 inmates from the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines dancing to Michael Jackson's biggest hit, "Thriller," inspired "Prison Dancer," a musical that seeks to gain traction on the Internet.
"Yo Gabba Gabba" art director Parker Jacobs inspired the Aquabats and also inspired a whole generation of kids to be gleefully weird. The most influential Hungtington Beach artist that you've never heard of recalls his long, strange, colorful path to fame.
How Exene Cervenka Came to Rule Over the Boy's Club
An Artbound exclusive video of punk goddess Exene Cervenka, lead singer/songwriter of X, as she hosts and performs at the Moonlight Graham Hootenanny and shares her trials with health issues.
Exposing Underground Art in Laguna Beach
ex•pose is a new program at Laguna Art Museum that focuses on one emerging or mid-career contemporary artist at a time. Artist Macha Suzuki's installations are featured until January 2013.
Weekly Video Vote Winners from Orange County
With your help, our editorial team reviewed and rated the most compelling weekly articles. One of these articles was passed along to our video production unit, who produced a short-format documentary based on the selected story. Every week, a new video debuted online. And every other month, we compiled the best online material to create a broadcast television episode. Check out all the 2012 head-to-head matches on our vote page.
- Hijabistas: Inside the World of Muslim-American Fashion
- What the Pageant of the Masters Reveals About Orange County
- Art With An Agenda: An Exhibit Inspired by Kelly Thomas
- Guerrilla Gowns: Orange County's Ghostly Perfomance Art
- Pinball Wizards of Orange County
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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.
