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The numerous walkways and storefronts of the neighborhood have been used to depict everything from exotic cities of the Far East, or a seedy underworld of crime and deception.
A skeptical public had heard rumors of Kinney's eccentric re-development ideas in the coastal marshlands of Southern California, but no one took him seriously.
A quiet documentarian of his time, Charles Brittin photographed Venice in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving an unparalleled record of the social and artistic movements of the era.
Pacific Ocean Park was the last of the great amusement parks in the Santa Monica/Venice area.
Dance marathons became the thing to do is Los Angeles during the 1920s and nowhere was this more popular and visible than in Venice.
From the early days of Kinney's Venice of America to the grand opening of the millennial Skate Park, the beach in Venice has come to represent one of LA's most generous and eccentric public spaces.
A quiet documentarian of his time, Charles Brittin photographed Venice in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving an unparalleled record of the social and artistic movements of the era.
Welcome back to 'Better Know a SoCal Blogger" on KCET.org, where we feature our city's plethora of fascinating and first-rate blogs. This week we are speaking with Andy Hurvitz from Here in Van Nuys, a blog that tries to captures the multifaceted essen...
Diana Thater's film project at the Santa Monica Museum of Art is a bit like an essay, at once whimsical and rigorous.
Shirin Neshat's new film balances art and cinema, and will screen in LA in the coming months.
REDCAT's spring 2010 film line-up includes an exhilarating list of contemporary avant-garde cinema.
Lewis Klahr's collage animation False Aging is featured on a London-based arts organization's Web site, giving viewers a rare chance to see the artist's work online.