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community arts
Artbound
A Corridor of Art Rejuvenates Mexico's Buena Vista Neighborhood
Post date:The Buena Vista neighborhood in Mexico City was revitalized by a community mural project that is now expanding to include other parts of the city.
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![[Click image to enlarge] "Altar Piece Heaven and Earth The Determined Freedom of an Undetermined Life," 2012. 7 feet x 6 feet. Egg Tempera on multiple panel.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/Marianela_de_la_Hoz_Altar_Heaven_and_Earth_580.jpg?itok=WqaEx-ez "[Click image to enlarge] "Altar Piece Heaven and Earth The Determined Freedom of an Undetermined Life," 2012. 7 feet x 6 feet. Egg Tempera on multiple panel.")
Visual Arts
Artbound
Marianela de la Hoz: Disquieting Scenes of Haunting Beauty
Post date:San Diego-area figure painter Marianela de la Hoz's work has Mexican and Catholic roots with ruminations on pain and pleasure, depravity and mystery.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
The War on Both Sides: Ostrich Skin
Post date:L.A. artist Rafa Esparza investigates ideas about memory, identity, kinship, and place through his performance art.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
La Guerra de Los Dos Lados: Piel de Avestruz
Post date:Artista Rafa Esparza está investigando ideas acerca de la memoria, la identidad, el parentesco y el lugar, sobre todo a través del performance.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
La Guerra de Los Dos Lados: La Guerra Contra El Dolor
Post date:¿Cuándo y cómo empezaron estos tiempos dolidos de violencia? No precisamente ayer y con el narcotráfico. La historia es añeja.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
The War on Both Sides: The War Against Pain
Post date:When and how did these painful times of violence begin? Not just yesterday with drug trafficking. The story is ages old.
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Mexico City
Artbound
La Guerra de Los Dos Lados: 10 Días Mexicanos
Post date:¿Es posible traducir la cultura de la violencia en un sitio estético para la sanación?
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Mexico City
Artbound
The War on Both Sides: 10 Mexican Days
Post date:Is it possible to translate the culture of violence into an aesthetic site of healing?
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
The War on Both Sides: Art, Violence, and Healing in the Drug War
Post date:What is the role of the creative community in the context of the drug war that is taking such a horrific toll on both sides of the Mexican-American border?
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
La Guerra de Los Dos Lados: Arte, Violencia y Sanación en la Guerra Contra el Narco
Post date:Artistas de Los Ãngeles viajan a la Ciudad de México para reunirse con sus homólogos y plantear una sencilla e impactante pregunta: ¿Cuál es el papel de la comunidad creativa en el contexto de la guerra del narco que ha cobrado un precio devastador en am
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
João Morlett: Fourth Time's a Charm and the Link to His Ink
Post date:"Putting the L.A. Metro symbol on me would really encompass the past two years. I feel like it will close a chapter of me traveling and starting a new life."
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Leonardo Bravo: Exile Journey With Punk Soundtrack
Post date:For a Chilean exile and his family, the cul-de-sac suburbia of Orange County was a complete shock, but it offered an endless sense of blissed-out freedom.
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inyo county
SoCal Focus
On Glaciers, Cities and Edges Across California
Post date:Reading "Deepest Valley: A Guide to Owens Valley, Its Roadsides and Mountain Trails" on a recent trip up the 395 to Mammoth brought an avalanche of memories about the edges of town I've lived in.
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
George Castillo: 2 Years Old and Homesick for L.A.
Post date:What does it take to convince your partner to move to L.A. from another country?
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Ceci Bastida: From Tijuana No! To Los Angeles Yes!
Post date:"I'm from Tijuana so L.A. wasn't that foreign," songwriter and musician Ceci Bastida tells us how she came to love L.A.
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poetry
SoCal Focus
L.A. Writers Translate Poem Denouncing Mexico's Drug Cartel Dead
Post date:In April, Maria Rivera stood in Mexico City's main square and read "Los Muertos," a poem that for one of the first times in public dared name those killed in the country's government and drug cartel violence war.
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SoCal Focus
Chilangear
Post date:In the opening scene of the book "Down & Delirious" Daniel Hernandez is swept up by the masses of people in a Virgen de Guadalupe pilgrimage in Mexico City. Very Canterbury Tales.
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Commentary
(Mad-) Men of Letters
Post date:In Mexico City, you don't have to look for history in a museum. The city itself is one, a living diorama of history, which is always somewhat astonishing to me, the native of L.A., the past-less paradise.
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Commentary
Estás en tu casa
Post date:Everything here is so classically chilango--the easy juxtaposition of signs of disparate origins, a kind of "radical mestizo."