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A group of artists met with the city in July to give input on a future mural policy for Los Angeles.
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Tanner Blackman is Los Angeles' lead when it comes to mural policy.
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This post is in support of Departures, KCET's oral history and interactive documentary project about Los Angeles neighborhoods. The series comments on cultural history and urban issues through the lens of community profiles, such as Venice and the Arts...
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In an odd twist of politics, street art has become far more visible than traditional murals.
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The art of large-scale storytelling is struggling in the very city that shaped the craft.
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Some pedestrians find themselves in the same predicament cyclists face on the streets with drivers.
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Early graffiti artists left their mark on New York's subway cars. The same idea may be undergoing a different application via L.A. transit--except it is not about painting subway and trains cars, it is about what can be seen from their windows.
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Skateboarding has held court for decades in the Southland. Now urban cycling is making itself a local.
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It is said there was a great "council tree" of the Gabrielino village of Yangna that once sat in the flood plain of the Los Angeles River where tribal leaders debated and shared stories. Today we are still sharing stories about the city's waterway.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art's ambitious "Art in the Streets" carries a decree declaring graffiti is a contemporary art form. While the show has been tagged as a success by critics and been enjoying solid attendance, the exhibition isn't matching the action found on the streets.
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With so many poets and artists using the river once named Porciuncula as a muse, it can be channeled to be a bookmark for local poets and artists.
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Only a small portion of the city of Glendale's border hugs the Los Angeles River, but local leaders are making sure residents have access to the 52-mile waterway that is envisioned to someday connect cities and neighborhoods together.
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The ongoing whitewashing of street art adds to the Los Angeles' growing reputation as an intolerant mural curator, an unfortunate tag for a city once known as the mural capitol of the world.
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For many Angelenos, sacred rituals to ancestors demonstrate the ethnic diversity found in the City of Los Angeles.
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By Ed Fuentes with Maria Lopez | April 1, 2011 4:15 PM This post is in support of Departures, KCET's oral history and interactive documentary project about Los Angeles neighborhoods, including the nearby Richland Farms and the L.A. River. Seagulls...
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Once strewn with trash, a wide block-long concrete traffic median surrounded by single family homes is starting to look a little more like it should be: a neighborhood pocket park.
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