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.
A mural was painted over. Street artists are outraged. It's a wake-up call that proves the delayed mural ordinance need to be passed through City Hall quickly.
The cardboard street art by Ramiro Gomez Jr. is an affectionate look at a workforce which he is part of -- and quietly works as hard as the people it portrays.
The whitewashing of another mural this morning shows why the new mural ordinance is necessary to bring clear definitions and streamline the process of obtaining permits.
Politics and murals are indigenous to Los Angeles, as evidenced by David Alfaro Siqueiros' brief stay in Los Angeles.
"Calle de la Eternidad," the original street name of Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, is also the name of an important mural now undergoing restoration by SPARC.
Now underway at El Pueblo Historical Monument is a major step in the long awaited conservation of David Alfaro Siqueiros politically charged mural.
The design concepts are playing out well for the artists participating in LACO's public art project.
Street art has become big business, with downtown L.A. seemingly determined to be "The Mural Economic Capital Of The World."
Newly discovered sketch for a 1974 mural shows the beginning of political idealism of contemporary Chicano art.
During summer 2011, last-minute state legislation was added to the budget bill and may force the new city to consider recalling cityhood before it even selects an official seal.
The city of Los Angeles will hold an international design competition for a redesign of the 6th Street Bridge.
Deedee Cheriel's pop-modernist mural is appropriately framed by the Standard Hotel's mod personality riff on 1960s corporate chic.