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Your bus ride just got more artsy

Now Angelenos Can See Art While Waiting for the Bus

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In Los Angeles, art resides on concrete walls, buildings, billboards and more. So it's no surprise that you can now see it around Downtown LA and Boyle Heights on another public surface -- the bus bench. Through a collaboration between the non-profit organizations DoArt Foundation and Make Art Public (MAP),......
A view of the inside of the tunnel; Credit: Eva Recinos

A Cypress Park Art Show in an Underground Tunnel

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On an otherwise normal Saturday night in Cypress Park, a man with a microwave over his head pointed at a skateboard deck and nodded with gusto. He stood in an underground tunnel with many other art enthusiasts, all squeezed into the space to get a view of skateboard decks artistically......
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Gettin' Fiction With It

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During a Valentine's Day show in Seattle, Bryan Cook decided to try something different. He gave a few comics the mic with the condition that they write and perform bits of erotic fan fiction -- you know, those DIY romances featuring characters like Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, or maybe......
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Life à la Lagos

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Sometimes the exploration of a new culture is exactly what you need to feel far away from good ol' L.A. Immerse yourself in Nigeria during the third annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks, hosted by L.A. Commons. The event models itself after an annual rite that takes place......
Maya and Jacob

East Los High on Hulu: A Show That Delves Into L.A.'s Latino Teen Culture

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See also: *Inside Amazon's Super-Weird, American Idol-Style TV Series Development Process (Note: An original version of this piece said Carlos Portugal directed the film Quinceañera. That film was actually directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland.) Ever sat in front of your television and thought: why can't that one Univision......
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A Jug of Wine (and Thou?)

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A glass of wine goes well with many things: food, heartbreak, good company and, most of all -- more wine. Test your love for the glorious liquid at LAWineFest, a two-day event with wine, food trucks, craft brews and more. Expect L.A.'s usual roster of hipsters and foodies, along with......
Program director Curver Thoroddsen with kids during a Biophilia educational workshop in Oslo; Credit: Photo courtesy of Biophiliaeducational.org

Four Lessons From Bjork's 'Biophilia' Class at MOCA

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See also: *Björk Brings Her Crazy Nature Project to L.A. On Big Family Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, kids and family members got to take part in a number of art-related activities, most of which took place under canopies outside the museum. But inside something a very different......
Sonya Clark's Rooted and Uprooted

Sonya Clark's Art Uses Thread Made of Human Hair

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There are many materials artists can choose to make into a portrait, but for artist Sonya Clark, the portrait of Madam CJ Walker could only come to life through one very ordinary object -- the comb. When visitors walk into the Craft and Folk Art Museum, they will encounter a......
Screenshot of a video collaboration between artist Gary Baseman and rave-rap group Die Antwoord.

Gary Baseman and Die Antwoord: Their Bizarre Collaboration

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Since its inception in 2012, MOCAtv continues to come up with quirky ideas for its channel ranging from artist interviews by Arrested Development star Alia Shawkat (who plays darling Maeby) to Bjork's dazzling, trippy music video "Mutual Core." What could possibly be next? Enter Gary Baseman, the prolific and multi-talented......