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Ed Fuentes

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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

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Public spaces will be filled with music as pianos decorated by local artists are placed throughout Los Angeles.
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Classically trained musician moonlights by night as a stealthy photographer of street art.
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Commissioned mural for Metro Gold Line was just one of many from a prolific career of artist and gallery owner Man One.
At Uncommon Ground III, Daniel Lahoba lobbies for murals to be on Arts District community plans.
New short film by the L.A. Freewalls Project looks at the current state of street art in L.A.
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Chicano mural in East L.A. extends the messages depicted in the mural located directly across the corner.
Jim Morrison mural by Cronk I Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
Mural of iconic Doors singer defines the bohemian lifestyle in Venice.
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A mural in East Los Angeles credited as a starting point for the Chicano Mural Art Movement is endangered by development.
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JR's wheat-pasting photographic imagery is a throwback to the mural masters of Los Angeles.
Quinceañera at Logan near Sunset | Photo by Yosuke Kitazawa
Echo Park's mural "Quinceañera," a 1996 work by Theresa Powers, was seen being sandblasted off the former Pescado Mojado restaurant Friday, but it will be recovered and saved, now say those working on the wall.
Ernesto de la Loza on third day of restoration for Organic Stimulus I Photo © Ian Robertson-Salt
The restoration of a mural in Estrada Courts could be the catalyst for gaining full support for mural ordinance reform.
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A modest mural in San Bernardino offers clues to regional history that is part of a larger story being told.
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Those bright green bike lanes meant to increase safety for cyclists on downtown's Spring Street are a bright red flag for the film industry, which uses it as "Any City, USA."
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