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Artbound
Borderlands
Season 6
Episode 2
Artbound explores arts along the U.S.-Mexico border. Featuring Mexicali Rose, an artist organization in Mexicali, where locals are encouraged to create art to galvanize community involvement; Drones as art, where multiple projects re-appropriating military drones play with the idea of surveillance and mobility; Paul Turounet’s photographs of undocumented border-crossers printed on galvanized metal; Tijuana’s vibrant reemergent gallery scene; and Manuel Paul Lopez’s animated poem 1984. Also featuring a musical performance by Rodrigo Amarante.
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Giant Robot was a bimonthly magazine that profoundly affected Asian American pop culture.
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WPA projects live on in L.A. Explores what effect a similar program might have today.
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Six Latinx artists in L.A. work to secure their place in American art.
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When Marcel Duchamp came to Pasadena in 1963, he sent ripples down L.A.'s art scene.
56:43
A self-published comic book made by brothers from Oxnard, Ca. makes comic book history.
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An LGBTQ nightclub event in L.A. called “Mustache Mondays” was an incubator for today’s exciting artists.
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The Autry Museum is working to recontextualize a large mural, dating from the 1980s.
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Site-specific desert art about land ownership, water scarcity and overlooked histories.
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“Sweet Land” recasts this nation's story through the eyes of immigrants and the Indigenous
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Ceramist Helen Jean Taylor crafted timeless works and helped others find peace in clay.
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A tribute to Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara, a Chicano music pioneer.
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The Watts Towers Arts Center was born out of the resilience of 1960s Black L.A.