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Tag Archives: Jesse Lerner
lost archives of a career photographer
Our radio station, KPFK in Los Angeles, is calling: support our non-commercial airwaves! It’s L.A.’s home for Democracy Now! and Al Jazeera. While we break for that cause, listen to this latest episode of Hear in the City. We enter a collection … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, City of Los Angeles, culture in the city, Downtown, Long Beach, love, marginalize communities, Mexico, music, photography, photography, public radio
Tagged Adriana Zavala, electronica in L.A., Hear in the City, Jesse Lerner, Lola Alvarez Bravos, Love Fix, Mapping The City, MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, photography in Mexico, Rachel Arauz, Sara Harris. Alvaro Parra, Xavier De Enciso
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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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“It’s just a big rock” and Radio Ambulante
On this episode, Hear in the City takes us to the unveiling of Levitated Mass, a 340-ton rock with its own Twitter feed. The rock’s trip through 22 cities in Southern California from Jurupah Valley to its perch atop a … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, culture in the city, land art, MOCA, public radio, radio, Uncategorized
Tagged Antonio Villaraigosa, Daniel Alarcón, David Brinkley, Ends of the Earth, Hear in the City, Jesse Lerner, LACMA, Land Art, Levitated Mass, Michael Heiser, MOCA, public radio, Radio Ambulante, Radio en español, Robert Smithson, Sara Harris
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translations in Mexican art
Listen to this show and be treated to a sonic journey into translations between languages, media, and landscapes as we map an eclectic sampling of Mexican artists whose work is currently featured around Los Angeles…. … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, City Terrace, film, near-obsolete technologies, photography, poetry, theater, video
Tagged Dolores Dorantes, Dr. Goio, Edgardo Aragon, Effectos De Familia, Fire Axolote, Gregorio Rocha, Hear in the City, Jen Hofer, Jesse Lerner, Kay Sage, LACMA, Los Angeles, Magic Lantern, Monica Nepote, Oaxaca, Sara Harris, Surrealist Adventures
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A night at the Welcome Inn
We spend this week’s show at a one-time musical happening in a motel on Colorado Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound converts a block of rooms into experimental music stages … 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
19th century transportation in the 21st century: 6/28/2011
On this week’s Hear in the City, we launch a new series called Two Wheels and a Mic by checking in with artist, educator, and bicycle activist Patrick Miller about an incident in Los Angeles that made national news last … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, bicycling, culture in the city, economy and equality, film, infrastructure, LAPD, public radio, smog, Special Series, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, urban environment
Tagged Critical Mass, cycling in Los Angeles, experimental film, Hear in the City, James Benning, Jesse Lerner, Midnight Ridazz, Patrick Miller, RR, Sara Harris
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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
04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series
Malick Sidibé
Hear in the City arts editor, Jesse Lerner, heads over to M and B Arts Gallery in West Hollywood, where an exhibit featuring the work of famed Malian photographer Malik Sidibé is on display through until the end of the … Continue reading






