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.
The act of making a statement in public space has instant cachet, just because it's being done. With so much street art, is it now more important to have meaning?
Levi Fonz Ponce doesn't want to change the world. He just wants to change his street.
The unlikely partnership between a billboard company and street artists brings change in the relationship between art and outdoor commerce.
Here are some newsworthy items about murals and street art in Los Angeles for February 2013.
Foliage growing out of the roof of a five-story downtown building became inspiration for an art exhibition.
New form of street art pays tribute to the city's name.
L.A. installation artist Ramiro Gomez Jr. timed his latest cardboard creations with the Senate hearings on immigration policy on Capitol Hill.
Elliott Barkan's photographs of Los Angeles murals portray the growing self-identity of Chicano culture since the late 1960s.
A parking spot becomes the spirit of a downtown looking for interaction between pedestrian and transportation.
A rundown of public art news and stories for the month of January, 2013.
Los Angeles as a place shapes the perspective of many local artists, whose works display the influence of their hometown.
"Aaron's legacy has had a huge influence on my art," said XVALA in a statement promoting the upcoming exhibition.