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Ansel Adams
History & Society
An Intimate Look at Ansel Adams' Los Angeles
Post date:A new gallery exhibit showcases selections from Los Angeles Public Library's collection of rarely seen Ansel Adams photos.
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L.A. River
History & Society
L.A. River Excursion: Frogtown West Bank
Post date:A short trip to the Los Angeles River can soothe a week's worth of stress. Grab a cup of coffee and visit Frogtown's West Bank.
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Photography
SoCal Wanderer
Video: Yosemite Beautifully Time-Lapsed in HD
Post date:If you still haven't been to Yosemite National Park, might this be your tipping point?
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films
SoCal Focus
Media Arts Preview: Punks, Pictures and Personal Environments
Post date:One of this week's highlights in art is the opening of what LACMA director Michael Govan dubs "a portrait of LA," namely to Chris Burden's exhilarating freeway sculpture, "Metropolis II."
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MOCA
SoCal Focus
Media Arts Preview: Cranial Experts, Maverick Directors, Experimental Impulses
Post date:Don't miss the one-week run of "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel" at the Nuart Theater.
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SoCal Focus
Capturing Familial Ties
Post date:Josh Schaedel's father lives in a hotel that charges by the week. He is an artist, carpenter, painter and journeyman. He also suffers depression and has an ongoing struggle with alcoholism.
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MOCA
SoCal Focus
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles at MOCA
Post date:The photographer known as Weegee created a series of lurid and surreal images of L.A. between 1947 and 1952, many of which are currently on view at MOCA, and collected in a book.
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fruits
SoCal Focus
From Here and Everywhere: The Immigrants Of Los Angeles
Post date:Stella was fascinated by a young man selling fruit across the street from her apartment, and it inspired her to create a series of portraits of the men and women selling fruit throughout Los Angeles.
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media art
SoCal Focus
Media Arts Preview: History Lessons of the Avant-Garde & Activist Media
Post date:L.A. considers its rich history of avant-garde and activist media with numerous events dedicated to reconsiderations of the past.
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musicians
SoCal Connected
Picturing Jazz
Post date:Two of the world's great jazz photographers take us inside a world of late-night shoots, exotic locations, and contrary art directors.
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films
SoCal Focus
Media Arts Preview: Hall of Mirrors
Post date:This week's media arts scene is a hall of mirrors, with events designed to disrupt, rearrange and reset your sense of perception.
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Departures
Departures
Photos: L.A. River Ramble With The Los Angeles Urban Rangers
Post date:Watch a slideshow of behind the scenes of Departures at the L.A. River Ramble.
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SoCal Focus
Pascual Sisto: Over and Over
Post date:The Armory Center for the Arts' exhibition of intriguing video loops by Pascual Sisto titled "Over and Over" introduces an emerging artist and his images of spaces just beyond the ordinary.
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TV Talk
Where's Huell? (May 2- 6)
Post date:This week: A historical photo exhibit, the world of quilting, frog "wranglers" and more!
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Flickr
Commentary
In the Pool: Rainy L.A.
Post date:After several days of rain, the sun finally broke out today, but the air has the distinct tang of fall. We went to the KCET.org Southern California Flickr Pool for images of Los Angeles in rain. If you have any you'd like to share, please add them to t...
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Commentary
Indelible Images of Mines & Minefields
Post date:Brett Van Ort has photographed, at some personal peril, mines and minefields from a recent Balkan war. The resulting images are indelible examples of the incongruously beautiful landscapes of death.
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Abbot Kinney
Departures
Photos: A Visual History of the Canals
Post date:A skeptical public had heard rumors of Kinney's eccentric re-development ideas in the coastal marshlands of Southern California, but no one took him seriously.
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beat
Departures
Photographer Charles Brittin: The Beat Years
Post date:A quiet documentarian of his time, Charles Brittin photographed Venice in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving an unparalleled record of the social and artistic movements of the era.
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surfing
Departures
Photos: Pacific Ocean Park
Post date:Pacific Ocean Park was the last of the great amusement parks in the Santa Monica/Venice area.
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Photography
Departures
Dance Marathon - Slideshow
Post date:Dance marathons became the thing to do is Los Angeles during the 1920s and nowhere was this more popular and visible than in Venice.