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Art, the Crenshaw/LAX Line, and the Stories We (Don’t) Tell at Train Stations
Given the role public investment can have in reshaping marginalized communities, what responsibilities does Metro have as an entity that seeks to tell stories about the places it moves people through?
November 1, 2018
Eyes on the Street: DIY Painting Between the Cracks in Silver Lake
L.A.'s Department of Do-It-Yourself has been busy piloting some non-Highway-Design-Manual-approved pavement treatments at an undisclosed intersection somewhere in Silver Lake. SBLA is not going to name the streets for fear that it would make it marginally easier for official city forces to overlay their gray-heavy official design motifs there.
October 13, 2014
Photo Exhibit Brings Human-Scale Public Art to Olympic Blvd. in Boyle Heights
Take a ride along Olympic Blvd. in Boyle Heights, and you will be struck by how unwelcoming it can feel to humans.
January 24, 2014
Opening Tonight: Ghost Bikes of L.A. Art Exhibit
Ghost Bikes L.A., a local art show honoring a decade of art, advocacy and community opens tonight 7 pm at Red #5 Yellow #7 in the Hel-Mel Bike District in East Hollywood.
October 25, 2013
Final Weeks to See Never Built Los Angeles at A+D Museum
Sunday afternoon I finally took in the New Built Los Angeles exhibit at the Architecture and Design Museum on Wilshire at Ogden (one block east of Fairfax). The always thoughtful Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times provides a good overview of the exhibit and notes it may hold lessons for a city grappling with new and exciting trends. Seven more pictures from the exhibition can be found at the end of this article.
October 1, 2013
“Station to Station: A Nomadic Happening” Art Train Visits Union Station Next Week
We picked up this news tidbit from The Transit Coalition Newsletter. Visit their website to sign up for the newsletter, join the coalition, or make a donation.
September 20, 2013
Roads We Walk: Jovenes Inc and Art Center College of Design
"The road I walk every day,
September 13, 2013
It’s Not Just a Bus Line. Streetsblog Explores the Orange Line Extension’s 25 Art Pieces
Last week, I was given the opportunity to take a guided tour of the Orange Line Extension's bike path and public art installation. For both the Expo Line and the Orange Line Extension, Metro commissioned a team of L.A. County artists to personalize the stations by creating public art projects to reflect the community. Los Angeles Times architecture critic Chris Hawthorne mocked the stations as "aggressively banal," but Streetsblog South L.A.'s Sahra Sulaiman writes about how community groups are working to make the art even more accesible to those passing through.
July 18, 2012
Experiments in Enhancing the Experience of Public Art Along the Expo Line
Have you ever stood in front of a piece of public art and thought your experience would be all the awesomer if you had some context for the work? Or maybe you passed by a public artwork every day and it didn't register with you until someone engaged you on questions of its value and meaning?
July 9, 2012