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HITC Special Series:
Category Archives: street art
Random musical moments
On this episode of Hear in the City, we take an eclectic tour of Los Angeles-based music. We go to the Nethercutt collection– a private showcase of intricate, hand-crafted music boxes featuring pianos with tiny hammers shaped like bees and one … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Boyle Heights, Downtown, film, MOCA, music, public radio, street art, Sylmar, transportation, Venice
Tagged Adam Hyman, Alternative Projections, Aurelio Reyes, Erin Scott, Jesse Lerner, L.A. Film Forum", Mariachi Plaza, music boxes, Nethercutt Collection, pie-organs, Sara Harris, Venice Beach
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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
01/03/2011: censorship and the arts
Siquieros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied
In 1932, after having served prison time for his political views, David Alfaro Siquieros came to Los Angeles to work. He was commissioned to paint a mural on a beer garden wall above the Italian Hall at Olvera Street. That … Continue reading
12/06/2010: building and construction
Murals and graffiti-what is public art?
Each year, 34 million tax dollars go toward eradicating graffitti. Hear in the City Producer, Luis Sierra Campos, talks to artists and organizers of a new show opening at the Social and Public Art Resource Center in Venice this weekend … Continue reading
Posted in 011: 12/06/2010: building and construction, arts, film, and music, censorship, City Government, community arts, East Hollywood, street art, Venice, work
Tagged censorship, East Hollywood, graffiti, Luis Sierra Campos, murals, public art, Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice
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