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Art and Protest - Noah Purifoy

Black History Month Special

Season 7 Episode 7
54:03
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Masters of Modern Design

Season 10 Episode 1
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Dia de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead

Season 10 Episode 3
56:18
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Jeffrey Deitch's Los Angeles

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Light & Space

Season 11 Episode 1
56:43
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CURRENT:LA FOOD

Season 11 Episode 3
52:45
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The Watts Towers Arts Center

Season 11 Episode 4
57:08
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Artbound

Art and Protest

Season 7 Episode 3

"Artbound" explores art created amidst social upheaval, including the life and work of Noah Purifoy whose practice was radically transformed by the Watts Riots; the emergence of Chicano printmaking in response to the Chicano Moratorium; Andrea Bowers and Noe Gaytan whose work engages with the contemporary struggle for raising the minimum wage and unionization of adjuncts in higher education; and Michael Maltzan's design of Star Apartments which addresses the issue of homelessness in Downtown Los Angeles.

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Chinatown Punk Wars
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56:28
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A New Deal for Los Angeles
56:43
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Arte Cósmico
56:49
Six Latinx artists in L.A. work to secure their place in American art.
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56:59
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Love & Rockets
56:43
A self-published comic book made by brothers from Oxnard, Ca. makes comic book history.
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