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Performance
Artbound
Mary Woronov: Artist, Chelsea Girl, and B-Movie Queen
Post date:An underground actress, writer, and figurative painter, Mary Woronov reflects on her career, including her influential time with Andy Warhol.
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KCET Press Releases
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KCET's Award-Winning Weekly Series 'SOCAL CONNECTED' Delves into the Feud Over Almonds. Do California's Lucrative Almond Orchards Use Too Much Water?
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Haider Ali: The King of Pakistani Truck Painting
Post date:The Pacific Asia Museum's "From the Grand Trunk Road to Route 66" brings an eclectic array of arts from Pakistan to Los Angeles.
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art laboe
SoCal Connected
Radio Personality Art Laboe
Post date:Esteemed radio host Art Laboe has spent decades taking song dedications and creating a space for inclusion and diversity. With his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the 89-year-old Armenian American radio personality has no plans to retire a...
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![Audrey Kawasaki, "Hi Kitty," 2014, oil and graphite on wood.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/Images/JANM-HelloKitty-AudreyKawasaki.jpg?itok=umE30F9x "Audrey Kawasaki, "Hi Kitty," 2014, oil and graphite on wood.")
Visual Arts
Artbound
Kawaii 4-0: L.A. Artworld Celebrates Four Decades of Hello Kitty
Post date:Two new exhibitions trace Hello Kitty's roots as a pop-culture phenomenon and illustrate the many ways that she inspires artists today.
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Performance
Artbound
L.A. Opera's Vision for the 21st Century
Post date:CEO and President of Los Angeles Opera Christopher Koelsch is helping to establish the organization as a leading arts institution for the 21st Century.
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Music
Artbound
From Frank Sinatra to Danny Elfman, Emil Richards' Six Decades of Music
Post date:Percussionist Emil Richards has been present on the L.A. music scene since the 1960s, contributing to recordings of famous TV theme songs and the soundtracks of Danny Elfman.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Shangri La: Islamic Arts Come to Los Angeles
Post date:The L.A. Islam Arts Initiative citywide program offers non-Muslim viewers the opportunity to see there's a rich creative culture within the Muslim communities.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
The Un-Private Collection: Kara Walker and Ava DuVernay
Post date:As part of The Broad Museum's The Un-Private Collection, filmmaker Ava DuVernay recently spoke with artist Kara Walker about her artwork and recent sugar Sphinx sculpture, "A Subtlety."
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Performance
Artbound
Experimental Dance by the Los Angeles River
Post date:Every corner of the Ed Reyes Greenway along the Los Angeles River will come alive with movement from experimental dance Sunday, October 26.
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SoCal Connected
Putting on Ayers
Post date:In this 2010 segment of "SoCal Connected," Lopez checks in to see what Ayers is up to.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
18th Street Arts Center Turns 25
Post date:18th Street Arts Center was established 25 years ago to offer a home for artists operating on the edges of artistic practice and social visibility in Los Angeles.
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film and media arts
Artbound
South American Cho-Low: Documenting Brazil's Lowrider Culture
Post date:The film "South American Cho-Low" explores the phenomenon of cholos and Southern California custom culture exported over 6000 miles away to São Paulo, Brazil.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Marjorie Cameron: Woman on the Verge
Post date:The new exhibition "Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman," revisits the legacy of Marjorie Cameron, a towering figure of mid-century counterculture and subversive art in L.A.
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SoCal Connected
Same Goal, Different Approaches: Ending Homelessness in L.A.
Post date:Homelessness in L.A. has been a problem for decades, but now a major push is being made to try to end chronic and veteran homelessness by 2016. Dozens of organizations are working together to get people off the streets and into permanent housing.
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Los Angeles
History & Society
Thom Andersen: Looking Back at Los Angeles
Post date:Thom Andersen's legendary, 170-minute documentary "Los Angeles Plays Itself" is finally available.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Julie Orser's Cinematic Fascination
Post date:In the exhibition "Madeleine," Julie Orser examines the onscreen fabrication of desire and obsession by revisiting scenes from the the film "Vertigo."
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Rob Sato's 'Memory Maps'
Post date:Rob Sato layers personal, historical, and fictional elements into his imagery that touch on themes of memory and time.
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Music
Artbound
Remembering Jazzman Gerald Wilson
Post date:Iconic bandleader/composer/arranger/educator Gerald Wilson, who passed away last month at the age of 96, was a fixture on the Central Avenue scene in Los Angeles.
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LAX
Artbound
Cleared for Take Off: Public Art at LAX
Post date:A contemporary arts festival at LAX explores the visual dynamics of air travel.