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l.a. letters
History & Society
City of Poets: Four Poetry Titles from L.A. to San Francisco
Post date:This week L.A. Letters spotlights four recent poetry books with connections to San Francisco, the Beat Generation, and Surrealism.
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arts
Northeast L.A. Riverfront
Photographing Life Along the Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront
Post date:Photographer Ricardo Palavecino's portraits provide an insight into the daily lives of individuals and communities based around the L.A. River in Northeast L.A.
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community arts
Artbound
Past to Present: Unforgetting L.A. Uses Wikipedia as an Activist Art Platform
Post date:Unforgetting L.A. is an an edit-a-thon that builds Wikipedia articles for artists, curators, and galleries of the past 30 years.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Making L.A.: Deborah Sussman Loves Los Angeles
Post date:How Deborah Sussman's colorful graphics transformed Los Angeles and paved a path for women designers.
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![<strong>Public Fiction</strong>. Emily Mast, "B!RDBRA!N (Epilogue)," 2012. Exhibition and performance as part of Public Fiction's Theatricality and Sets series. Photographer: Anitra Haendel.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/public_fiction_theatricality.jpg?itok=5eagu6Vk "<strong>Public Fiction</strong>. Emily Mast, "B!RDBRA!N (Epilogue)," 2012. Exhibition and performance as part of Public Fiction's Theatricality and Sets series. Photographer: Anitra Haendel.")
Visual Arts
Artbound
Made in L.A. 2014 Curator Michael Ned Holte on SoCal Cultural Microclimates
Post date:Michael Ned Holte wants to expose the city's microclimates -- art that responds to a very local context, but somehow fits together to form some kind of idea of what Los Angeles is.
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![Nelson Leirner, "Maracana," 2003 (detail). | Photo: Drew Tewksbury.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/Nelson%2520Leirner%252C%2520Maracana%252C%25202003%2520%2528detail%2529.jpg?itok=VFjuJh_w "Nelson Leirner, "Maracana," 2003 (detail). | Photo: Drew Tewksbury.")
Visual Arts
Artbound
PHOTOS: "Fútbol, the Beautiful Game" at LACMA
Post date:LACMA's "Fútbol: the Beautiful Game" presents offerings by nearly 30 artists whose works center in some way on the global sport.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Hiromi Takizawa's ULTRAVIOLET Illuminations
Post date:Hiromi Takizawa's "ULTRAVIOLET: Light Installation" explores the role of light in architectural and environmental spaces.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Hiromi Takizawa's ULTRAVIOLET Illuminations
Post date:Hiromi Takizawa's "ULTRAVIOLET: Light Installation" explores the role of light in architectural and environmental spaces.
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![Job Piston, "OisÃn," 2013. | Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/JobPiston_1.jpg?itok=g_DQ2USB "Job Piston, "OisÃn," 2013. | Courtesy of the artist.")
Visual Arts
Artbound
Job Piston: Fossilizing the Ephemeral
Post date:Artist and photographer Job Piston talks about his unique chemical portraiture process and print installation, currently on view at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Kamol Tassananchalee: Thailand's Emissary of Art
Post date:Artist Kamol Tassananchalee shares the Thai artistic spirit overseas and encourages fellow Thai artists and his students to draw inspiration from their own roots and overseas.
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Music
Artbound
Chelsea Wolfe and the Art of Darkness
Post date:Chelsea Wolfe brought her atmospheric brand of rock to the KCET studios for a special session exclusively for Artbound and a dedicated group of Wolfe's followers.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
MOCA Raises $100 Million
Post date:After less than a year, the Museum of Contemporary Art met its goal of raising its endowment to $100 million. The museum has set out to raise another $50 million.
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leimert park
Departures
The Uncertain Future of Leimert Park's World Stage
Post date:The impending Metro Station has brought unexpected changes to Leimert Park with increased rents threatening local businesses and longtime cultural spaces such as the World Stage.
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arts
Departures
Activating Our Cultural Assets: A Story of Community Organizing in Boyle Heights Through Traditional Arts Practice
Post date:The Activating Cultural Assets Project aimed to integrate valued local community artists and arts practices into the work of the Boyle Heights Building Healthy Communities Initiative.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
The Mystical Mindscapes of Hung Viet Nguyen
Post date:Hung Viet Nguyen transitioned from a career as a biologist to one as an artist. He has maintained a keen interest in the way living creatures live, procreate, interact and die.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Market Makeover: Euclid Market Transformation
Post date:Euclid Market in Boyle Heights will have its grand reopening on Saturday, December 14.
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leimert park
Departures
Leimert Park: Where Does It Go From Here?
Post date:The celebration after the rail stop victory brought together activists, village regulars and politicians -- but the jubilation fizzled almost immediately. What's happened in Leimert Park?
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Weekender: Experiments in the Desert, Subatomic Particles and Monumental Drawings
Post date:Take a look at our list of art event picks this week.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Weekender: Indie Video Games, East L.A. Surrealism and Monster Masks
Post date:From East Los Angeles surrealism and indie video games, to monster masks and collective typing, here's our list of art events taking place this weekend in Los Angeles.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
The Grand Grotesquerie of Gabe Bartalos
Post date:"Abhorrence and Obsession" celebrates the surreal and fantastical worlds of special effects artist Gabe Bartalos.