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Category Archives: street art
of marathons and assholes
On this episode: “Whenever I see a plain, industrial building, I just have to wonder: who’s being screwed behind those frosted, black windows?” -Robby Herbst, Llano del Río collective on the Antagonist’s Guide to the Assholes of Los Angeles. “When you are … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, City of Los Angeles, civil rights, community arts, culture in the city, economy and equality, music, street art, Uncategorized, video, work
Tagged "Fernando Llanos", "Llano del Río Collective", "Mi Reyna", "Robby Herbst", 90.7FM, Hear in the City, KPFK, Mapping The City, Sara Harris
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a house painted gold
On this episode, we visit a humble house on a winding road in the hills of Los Angeles where a group of artists turn one family’s mortgage default and foreclosure story into a lens for looking at a larger problem. … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, City of Los Angeles, community arts, community redevelopment, culture in the city, Cypress Park, economy and equality, marginalize communities, music, Neighborhood/Area, protest, street art, video
Tagged A Notorious Possession, Economic Justice, End Of The Rainbow, Foreclosure Crisis Los Angeles, Gold, Hear in the City, Igor Stravinsky, Jesse Lerner, Mapping The City Through Sound, Olga Koumoundouros, Radio Realities From, Sara Harris, The Rite Of Spring, the urban landscape, Wizard Of Oz
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Bullied?
On this week’s show, we are thrilled to announce that Hear in the City has been selected to be part of a national one-hour radio series: Generation PRX’s Bullied Project. Student producers René Ayala and Oscar Rodriguez … Continue reading
Performance, protest, prayer in public space
In honor of our one-year anniversary on Hear in the City, we bring you a show about protest, performance, and prayer in the public space. We visit the Asco arts exhibition “The Elite of the Obscure” at … Continue reading
Art in the Streets
We’ve been following the public conversation surrounding censorship, street art, and MOCA‘s popular Art in the Streets exhibition at the Geffen Temporary Contemporary museum in downtown Los Angeles. In this segment, Hear in the City arts editor Jesse Lerner breaks down some of … Continue reading
4/19/2011: holding council
On this installment of Hear in the City, we experience the Native American tradition of council in a non-traditional setting: a high school classroom just east of the Greyhound station in one of L.A.’s oldest schoolhouses, Metropolitan High where student … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, censorship, community arts, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, Downtown, economy and equality, education, GLBTQ life, Hurricane Katrina, LAUSD, Little Tokyo, marginalize communities, MOCA, Special Series, street art, The HeArt Project, theater, Uncategorized
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01/03/2011: censorship and the arts
On this week’s Hear in the City, we take a look at censorship in the arts from the perspective of three exhibitions taking place in Los Angeles. Hear in the City airs every Monday at 2pm Pacific Standard Time on … Continue reading
01/03/2011: censorship and the arts
Street art at MOCA, street art in LA
As part of the “Art in the Streets” exhibition, the Italian street artist known as BLU was hired by MOCA to paint a mural on the north wall of the Geffen Temporary Contemporary in Little Tokyo. The museum had the … Continue reading
