Ed Fuentes
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Ed Fuentes is an arts journalist, photographer, graphic designer, and digital muralist and has been covering the Inland Empire, the High Desert, and downtown Los Angeles -- including murals and street art -- for KCET’s Departures since 2010. He lived downtown for 13 years, and still covers regional art and culture with his blog, viewfromaloft.org which began in the Arts District in 2006.
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Writing on the Wall guest editorial series continues with Bill Lasarow, who serves as Board President of the Mural Conservancey of Los Angeles.
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Street art, animation, downtown L.A. photography, and more are among the handful of shows to see Art Walk night this September.
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With a 13 to 2 vote on Wednesday, the modified mural ordinance, which doesn't allow murals on single-family homes, has officially moved forward.
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The last year has been a mini-golden era of outdoor art, giving L.A. the chance to regain the title of "mural capital of the world."
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The mural ordinance, which would lift the 11-year city-wide ban on murals, was passed by city council -- almost.
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Posted California Scenario: Isamu Noguchi's Hidden Public Sculpture Garden in Orange County
in Land of SunshineProvoking awareness of both an inner and outer nature, Noguchi's work fosters self-reflection and a collective call to honor and appreciate the crucial but tenuous relationship Californians hold with their precious resources. -
For a city that's infatuated with its murals, it's been dishing out a lot of tough love -- the anticipated city council vote on the proposed mural ordinance has been delayed.
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If one of your neighbors wants to hire an artist to paint a mural on an outside wall of his or her house, should you and your fellow homeowners have the right to say "No?"
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The sequel shows the L.A.-based filmmaker globetrotting to meet with artists in Australia, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Grocery cart art, the artist behind LAX's pylons, surreal paintings, and more are among the many shows to see Art Walk night this August.
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Graffiti can be a crime. There, I said it. And Saber agrees.
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As we wait for the proposed mural ordinance to reach City Council August 20, let's have a look at what else has been happening with murals, public art, and street art in July of 2013.
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The proposed ordinance would allow murals to be created legally on private property.
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Artists are becoming writers as they overlay image with bold type that allows the environment to say something with the brevity of a tweet.
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In a determined and continued burst to revamp murals commissioned during the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, the Mural Conservancy announced today restoration on "Galileo, Jupiter, Apollo" has begun.
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Collector Ed Sweeney collaborated with the Getty to assemble a monumental "piece-book" that represents the works of regional graffiti artists.
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Gritty photography of the Paris metro, "New American" street photography, Japanese comic artists and comic book villains, experimental one-minute films, and travel fashion are among the many shows to see Art Walk night this July.
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Ed Fuentes tells his personal stories of Casa Blanca, a 16-block barrio in Riverside, where he grew up, through digital mural works that are now on display at the Riverside Art Museum.
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Here are a few mural- and public art-related stories we like to tag in our Monthly Mural Wrap up for June, 2013.
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Posted Happy Birthday Millard Sheets: Top Ten Public Art Projects to See in Person
in Land of SunshineSheets' public art projects can be seen throughout the country. -
A group of educators attending a conference wanted to see Los Angeles through its murals.
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The ordinance's main purpose: to move art out from under the rules of signs, and be administered in Cultural Affairs, not Building and Safety.
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The summer public tour will be held on the first Thursdays of July, August, and September.
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Art Walk is starting to go back to its roots, becoming more about the art, not the party.
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If the stage production of "Zoot Suit" made El Pachuco the flag bearer of identity, its poster became the garrison flag.
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May 2013 saw more murals coming, then going. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.
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More than a century after its founding in 1909, the California Art Club is still fighting the good fight as part of L.A.'s art history.
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With help from Cheech Marin, a university in a traditionally conservative Virginia town looks at the murals of Los Angeles for a lesson in Chicano/a art.
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The Echo Park mural has gone through three lives since its original completion in 1991.
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Artists have often used Skid Row as source material, using the theme that the status of its residents doesn't change.
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Writing on the Wall guest editorial series continues with Bill Lasarow, who serves as Board President of the Mural Conservancey of Los Angeles.
-
Street art, animation, downtown L.A. photography, and more are among the handful of shows to see Art Walk night this September.
-
With a 13 to 2 vote on Wednesday, the modified mural ordinance, which doesn't allow murals on single-family homes, has officially moved forward.
-
The last year has been a mini-golden era of outdoor art, giving L.A. the chance to regain the title of "mural capital of the world."
-
The mural ordinance, which would lift the 11-year city-wide ban on murals, was passed by city council -- almost.
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Posted California Scenario: Isamu Noguchi's Hidden Public Sculpture Garden in Orange County
in Land of SunshineProvoking awareness of both an inner and outer nature, Noguchi's work fosters self-reflection and a collective call to honor and appreciate the crucial but tenuous relationship Californians hold with their precious resources. -
For a city that's infatuated with its murals, it's been dishing out a lot of tough love -- the anticipated city council vote on the proposed mural ordinance has been delayed.
-
If one of your neighbors wants to hire an artist to paint a mural on an outside wall of his or her house, should you and your fellow homeowners have the right to say "No?"
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The sequel shows the L.A.-based filmmaker globetrotting to meet with artists in Australia, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Grocery cart art, the artist behind LAX's pylons, surreal paintings, and more are among the many shows to see Art Walk night this August.
