Ed Fuentes
Ed Fuentes is a cultural journalist who has been covering the Inland Empire, the High Desert, and downtown Los Angeles for KCET since 2010. He lived in downtown Los Angeles for 13 years before moving to Las Vegas, where he covers regional art, including murals and street art, at painthisdesert.com. He tweets at @viewfromaloft.
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The muralists who painted the walls for the 1984 Games exchanged hugs and stories last weekend like victorious Olympians.
The emergence of murals in the desert city has also created conflicts regarding permits.
James Prigoff is the prolific author, photographer, and lecturer on murals, considered one of the major forces in giving dignity and credibility to an art form that once was considered to be vandalism.
In between politics and policy, some outstanding murals were created and rededicated -- a reminder of how murals are a document of region. Here's a look at this month's mural and street art news in Los Angeles, and a bit beyond.
Two recent murals have been cited for not having the proper permits under the new mural ordinance.
Sometimes photographic documentation is all that remains of long-lost murals.
Just outside Riverside's city limits, in the community known as Rubidoux, a small airport that dates back to 1925 proudly wears wings of quirkiness.
The California desert town's mural program was born out of a tradition that began in Vancouver, B.C.
The impact of a mural is often determined by its location and context, as illustrated by two new murals that recently popped up in downtown L.A.
From the words of poets, to the streets of Skid Row, and a visitor from abroad, murals are still storytellers with some bite, and allows March to roar in like a political lion. Here is this month's sampling of mural news, including works with meaning a...
His most recent body of work seeks an understanding of the widespread lynching of Mexicanos in Texas between 1848 and 1928.
A wall in Venice Beach has hosted two murals that have acted as love letters to the city.