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Monomania L.A. profiles collectors who have turned a monomaniacal obsession into a public resource. An Artbound special episode showcasing the series debuted March 17 on KCET.
During its heyday, the town was called the "most lawless, wildest and toughest mining camp the far west has ever known."
Thirty miles east of Indio, California in a largely uninhabited desert landscape, sits the largest military training ground in U.S. history, though you might not have heard of it.
This week L.A. Letters examines Cerritos and explores the unique legacy of this gem of a city nestled in the southeast corner of Los Angeles County.
The park, four hour north of L.A., offers several groves of giant sequoias, spacious and clean campgrounds, old historic lodges, and over 825 miles of hiking trails.
Led by the Feminist Library on Wheels and hosts of Bike Talk, Open Books rides are free public group rides that explore the city and its literary outposts.
HistoricPlacesLA is an online public repository of cultural sites across L.A. It is the country's most sophisticated inventory management systems for cultural resources to date.
Bringing Back Broadway is a ten-year plan to revive and rehabilitate Broadway Street, the historic Theatre District in Downtown Los Angeles.
Everybody who was anybody in the jazz world stayed at South Central's Dunbar Hotel, where "the future of black America was discussed every night of the week in the lobby".
The Getty undertakes a wide range of conservation projects around the world at important historic and cultural sites, helping to preserve the artistic heritage of diverse cultures.
This week L.A. Letters spotlights an upcoming feminist book fair in Historic South Central Los Angeles, as well as the gallery space hosting the event.
The amendment gave black Angelenos the right to vote, but the county clerk at first refused to register them anyway.