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An image can have powerful consequences. Explore how artists are using the visual arts to empower and elevate a point of view.

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"The Machine Project's Field Guide to the Gamble House" features over 50 artworks, performances, workshops, and interventions, scattered throughout the iconic home.
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Laurie Steelink founded Cornelius Projects as a gallery in the longstanding art community of San Pedro.
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Art inhabits an unusual space at regional Comic-Cons. Certain genres of art -- from fantasy to pop surrealism to designer toys -- have long had a home at the convention.
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Carpinteria-based artist Julie Montgomery's landscape paintings retain the compositional integrity one ordinarily associates with pure abstraction.
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Patrick Walsh, a.k.a JPW3, challenges modes of convention through his interdisciplinary approach to art that toys with the edges of artistic and philosophical rebirth.
Luis G. Hernández's informed techniques aim to pull the spectator in for a more intimate discourse on identity, politics, and aesthetics.
Taylor Negron, a character actor and comedian best known for his roles in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "The Last Boy Scout," died of cancer on Saturday. He was 57. We profiled Negron in May when his paintings were on view in a solo exhibition at ...
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In this episode, Artbound investigates arts practices from communities East of Los Angeles.
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"L.A. Heat" brings together 30 L.A.-based artists to explore the city's culinary and artsitic innovation with artworks inspired by red hot condiments.
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How Deborah Sussman's colorful graphics transformed Los Angeles and paved a path for women designers.
<strong>Public Fiction</strong>. Emily Mast, &quot;B!RDBRA!N (Epilogue),&quot; 2012. Exhibition and performance as part of Public Fiction's Theatricality and Sets series. Photographer: Anitra Haendel.
Michael Ned Holte wants to expose the city's microclimates -- art that responds to a very local context, but somehow fits together to form some kind of idea of what Los Angeles is.
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In her "Virgil" series at Vibiana, Nancy Baker Cahill's shades of graphite gray swirl like a tempest on large, bold canvasses.
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