Ed Fuentes
Ed Fuentes is a cultural journalist who has been covering the Inland Empire, the High Desert, and downtown Los Angeles for KCET since 2010. He lived in downtown Los Angeles for 13 years before moving to Las Vegas, where he covers regional art, including murals and street art, at painthisdesert.com. He tweets at @viewfromaloft.
"Vital Signs" is the intimate response from an Inland poet and photographer, to the hand-painted typography and murals of their region, and the…
In California towns like Barstow, Twentynine Palms, Lompoc, Indio, and Lindsey, provincial stories are painted on walls for people who may be driving through -- call it the rural mural movement.
Many of the muralists featured in the 1981 documentary joined the filmmaker at Santa Monica's Aero Theater last week's screening.
Current work at the 118 Winston gallery was prompted by this week's protests of The Autry, held by the Friends of the Southwest Museum.
The co-curator for the Street Art Expo at Tate Modern shared some insights about the distinctions between street art and graffiti, both in his hometown of London and in Los Angeles.
Muralists wait for no one. Once the ordinance was passed, permits were issued and the month brought reminders that the Los Angeles mural movement has an international reputation, its original practitioners and instigators go back decades, and the futur...
Fairey's use of a street aesthetic and language is not unlike the way Thomas Kinkade utilized the language of high art to sell prints, glorified posters, and reproductions of his paintings.
Street art renegades will make up the first batch of artists to be issued permits under the new mural ordinance.
Not all are happy with the subversive tactics of famed UK street artist Banksy and his October artist residency in New York.
We commemorate the dedication of "Mural Day" with a ceremonial list of Ten Monumental Murals that were created before the 2002 ban.
The city's mural tradition is entering a new era, and what better way to mark that transition than a symbolic coming out party with a 15 year old artist from Highland Park.
Here are some of the September stories on murals, street art, and public art barreling into October, like a train filled with travel happy artists.