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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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The mural ordinance gets another chance tomorrow to be passed and end a long ban on public art.
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One of Huell's gifts was getting people to say the right thing in one take.
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Professor and Exhibitions Director at Azusa Pacific University offers his top street art-related stories for 2012.
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The Silver Lake mural by Annie Sperling, "La Nuestra Reina de Las Iguanas," is a Zapotec woman wearing a crown of iguanas.
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The influential Downtown L.A. gallery will close its doors after one more exhibition that will showcase graffiti as an art form.
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A closer look at Noa Bornstein's lost mural, a surrealistic spoof of advertising and an homage to the Belgian master.
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Artist RISK has created a vibrant mural called "Ye Sun" on a wall facing L.A.'s Skid Row to bring art to this blighted corner of downtown.
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The iconic 1984 mural by Frank Romero will return to its former glory.
'Two Vendors' (1989) by John Valadez. Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment © 1989, John M. Valadez
The Smithsonian American Art Museum comments on the influence of Latino art, specifically the murals of John Valadez.
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Here are some of the latest stories in the world of street and public art.
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A new mural has made South Los Angeles a bit more animated.
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