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Visual Arts
Artbound
Cardboard Crafting: Ana Serrano's Paper Worlds
Post date:Artist Ana Serrano constructs cardboard-made sculptures inspired by Latino pop culture, and the beauty found in the day-to-day built environment of L.A.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Cleon Peterson at the End of the World
Post date:Cleon Peterson's shadowy figures mete out violence in images that could just as well depict justice as they do barbarity.
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paul koretz
Redefine
L.A. Leads American Cities in Solar
Post date:Los Angeles has more installed solar power capacity in its city limits than any other American city.
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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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Visual Arts
Artbound
Helen Pashgian Considers Light and Its Absence
Post date:"Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible" features the first large-scale sculptural installation by the pioneer of the Light and Space movement.
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A Los Angeles Primer
History & Society
A Los Angeles Primer: LAX
Post date:Vast, confusing, punctuated by curiosities neither beautiful nor ugly, and demanding of both endurance and optimism, Los Angeles' airport provides a tempting symbol for the city itself. But why only now has it felt the need to become "world class"?
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A Los Angeles Primer
History & Society
A Los Angeles Primer: Skid Row
Post date:This zone of missions, clinics, residential hotels, and sparse convenience stores hosts not just a large and unfortunate outdoor population but their many tents, shopping carts, and rickety wheelchairs besides. What does its presence, which troubles ev...
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Artbound Presents Studio A
Deap Vally: The Craft of Rock
Post date:Channeling titans of rock and riot grrl punk, power duo Deap Vally unleash a bombastic style of guitar-and-drums mayhem in the KCET's Studio A. Julie Edwards and Lindsey Troy met in a knitting class but their music is anything but well-mannered.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Picture Perfect: The Fine Eyes of Location Scouts
Post date:For location scout Greg Campeau, few other cities like Los Angeles offer built and natural landscapes that manage to be both deeply iconic and conveniently generic.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Artbound Special Episode 'The Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture'
Post date:Echo Park institute Machine Project recently invited and filmed more than 20 artists to create performances that respond to notable architectural sites throughout Los Angeles.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Mexican Muralism Meets High Modernism in L.A.
Post date:Muralism's modern approach to form exemplified the connection between avant-garde art and radical politics in depression-era Los Angeles.
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A Los Angeles Primer
History & Society
A Los Angeles Primer: Melrose Avenue
Post date:At six miles, Melrose Avenue, the world-renowned destination and longtime bastion of "alternative" shopping culture, seems almost manageable by comparison to other major Los Angeles streets. But however you travel it, should you take it in branded sect...
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Asher Hartman
Artbound
Artbound Machine Project Special Airs Thursday, March 6 at 9PM
Post date:The Artbound special episode, "The Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture," will air on Thursday, March 6 at 9PM PST on KCET-TV.
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downtown
Lost L.A.
Mercantile Place: The Tiny, Lost Shopping Street of Downtown L.A.
Post date:Long before The Grove, Third Street, or even Universal CityWalk, Angelenos flocked to another open-air shopping promenade: Mercantile Place
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Music
Artbound
Teebs: Ethereal Beats and Visual Remixes
Post date:Mtendere Mandowa, better known as Teebs, is straddling the world of art and music.
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A Los Angeles Primer
History & Society
A Los Angeles Primer: Union Station
Post date:All who pass through Union Station, Los Angeles' 1939 memorial to the heyday of passenger rail, must dream of a distant, glamorous, lost era of American train travel. Having passed the post-WWII decades as little more than a curiosity, how has Union St...
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Architecture and Design
Artbound
Blurry Boundaries: New Architecture Exhibitions Survey Cross-Disciplinary Practices
Post date:Three exhibitions on view right now across the southland celebrate experimental design, while making it accessible to a broad audience.
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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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Performance
Artbound
Homer's Odyssey Performed in a Honda Odyssey
Post date:"Odyssey Odyssey" is a performance adapted from a segment in Homer's "The Odyssey," that takes place in a Honda Odyssey driving the freeways of Los Angeles.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Mayor Eric Garcetti On 'Connecting' Los Angeles
Post date:Mayor Eric Garcetti joined L.A. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne for an discussion of public policy surrounding a diverse array of city planning subjects.