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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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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Posted Six and a Half Weeks: The Making of 'Opening Night' for the América Tropical Interpretive Center
in Land of SunshinePainter and museum educator Sandy Rodriguez shares that experience of creating the interior mural at the The América Tropical Interpretive Center in a guest editorial. -
It's time for a quiz. May 9 is the next Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, and the self-guided tour of galleries is which designated neighborhood? A) The Historic Core, B) Gallery Row, or C) the Old Bank District? Verteran...
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April 2013 is filled with random news of street art, murals, and how they fit in public space. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.
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The cross will stay on the stoic hill as an early form of public art that supports the idea that California culture was defined by Father Junipero Serra.
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This month, for the first time in thirty years, a Millard Sheets mosaic is being installed.
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Eight artists, selected from 400 applicants, will make the rail system a visual engagement between people and place.
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This Thursday is the monthly Downtown L.A. Art Walk. Here's a guide to the art, not the party.
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When one takes a closer look at murals through a photograph, it shows how they share space with the immediate environment -- and begins to resemble early 20th century photo-montage collage.
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Here are a dozen news and notes about street art and murals from the month of March, 2013.
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The major work at the L.A. Central Library that has survived grime, two arson fires, and budget cuts, is not getting much attention on its 80th Anniversary.
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The act of making a statement in public space has instant cachet, just because it's being done. With so much street art, is it now more important to have meaning?
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Levi Fonz Ponce doesn't want to change the world. He just wants to change his street.
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This Thursday is the monthly Downtown L.A. Art Walk, and now, with daylight saving time in effect, it not only means extra sunlight for gallery-goers' enjoyment, but also more time to capture themselves as Angels on Main Street.
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The unlikely partnership between a billboard company and street artists brings change in the relationship between art and outdoor commerce.
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Here are some newsworthy items about murals and street art in Los Angeles for February 2013.
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Foliage growing out of the roof of a five-story downtown building became inspiration for an art exhibition.
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New form of street art pays tribute to the city's name.
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L.A. installation artist Ramiro Gomez Jr. timed his latest cardboard creations with the Senate hearings on immigration policy on Capitol Hill.
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After a quiet start in January, the event livens up in February.
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Elliott Barkan's photographs of Los Angeles murals portray the growing self-identity of Chicano culture since the late 1960s.
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A parking spot becomes the spirit of a downtown looking for interaction between pedestrian and transportation.
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A rundown of public art news and stories for the month of January, 2013.
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Los Angeles as a place shapes the perspective of many local artists, whose works display the influence of their hometown.
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Posted [UPDATED: Ordinance Passes PLUM]: Revised Mural Ordinance to be Heard January 15
in Land of SunshineThe mural ordinance gets another chance tomorrow to be passed and end a long ban on public art. -
One of Huell's gifts was getting people to say the right thing in one take.
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A low-key introduction to a new year for art in downtown Los Angeles.
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A lot happened in the world of public
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Professor and Exhibitions Director at Azusa Pacific University offers his top street art-related stories for 2012.
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The Echo Park mural has gone through three lives since its original completion in 1991.
-
Artists have often used Skid Row as source material, using the theme that the status of its residents doesn't change.
-
Posted Six and a Half Weeks: The Making of 'Opening Night' for the América Tropical Interpretive Center
in Land of SunshinePainter and museum educator Sandy Rodriguez shares that experience of creating the interior mural at the The América Tropical Interpretive Center in a guest editorial. -
It's time for a quiz. May 9 is the next Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, and the self-guided tour of galleries is which designated neighborhood? A) The Historic Core, B) Gallery Row, or C) the Old Bank District? Verteran...
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April 2013 is filled with random news of street art, murals, and how they fit in public space. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.
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The cross will stay on the stoic hill as an early form of public art that supports the idea that California culture was defined by Father Junipero Serra.
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This month, for the first time in thirty years, a Millard Sheets mosaic is being installed.
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Eight artists, selected from 400 applicants, will make the rail system a visual engagement between people and place.
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This Thursday is the monthly Downtown L.A. Art Walk. Here's a guide to the art, not the party.
-
When one takes a closer look at murals through a photograph, it shows how they share space with the immediate environment -- and begins to resemble early 20th century photo-montage collage.
