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Tonight: Who Own the Visual Rights to the City?

By Holly Willis
March 23, 2010
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A little over a year ago, journalist Christine Pelisek lambasted city officials for their refusal to address the profusion of illegal billboards throughout Los Angeles in an award-winning article titled "Billboards Gone Wild: 4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoods."Tonight, Pelisek will join cultural studies professor Toby Miller, Rick Robinson of MacDonald Media and attorney John Tehranian to talk about the implications of large LED billboards and illegal signage, and the corporate control of our city's visual landscape. Moderated by LA Freewaves founder Anne Bray, the talk is part of a city-wide exhibition of billboards by artists titled How Many Billboards organized by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House. The discussion, "Visual Rights to the City," is co-presented by the MAK Center, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and California Lawyers for the Arts, and should be a lively debate about the role of art and corporate power in Los Angeles. (Image: Kerry Tribe's contribution to the billboard series, located at La Brea Avenue, north of Venice Blvd.)

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Visual Rights to the City
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
ALOUD at Central Library Mark Taper Auditorium
Fifth & Flower Streets, downtown
Free, reservations recommended
213-228-7025

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