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Sought after by the local and international elite, Jay Griffith's theatrical gardens are bold, expressive juxtapositions of materials, plants and textures that have garnered him a reputation as the enfant terrible of landscape architecture.
A quiet documentarian of his time, Charles Brittin photographed Venice in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving an unparalleled record of the social and artistic movements of the era.
With students from Occidental CollegeEagle Rock is a small crevice of Los Angeles, poking its head between Glendale and Pasadena. In its hay day, thanks…
A skeptical public had heard rumors of Kinney's eccentric re-development ideas in the coastal marshlands of Southern California, but no one took him seriously.
From the early days of Kinney's Venice of America to the grand opening of the millennial Skate Park, the beach in Venice has come to represent one of LA's most generous and eccentric public spaces.
Departures Participate Education Neighborhoods are where people come to live including you, we want to know your story.Walk
Artist Ed Ruscha describes his emotions as he drove to Los Angeles, at the age of 19, from Oklahoma City.
The first wave of migration from China stretches from the age of the Californios to the creation of a new Los Angeles Chinatown in the 1930's.
The Venice Recreation Center is a place for many forms of exercise. Its facilities include a weight pin, a skate park, basketball, handball, and paddle tennis courts and the famed muscle beach.
Robin Murez resides in the last green space on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Ironically, along a street lined with decadent shops and gourmet restaurants, sits an open studio space behind a protective chain link fence.
Everyone in Los Angeles, even if they don't know it, is familiar with the work of Robbie Conal.
Venice was built under the provision that the beach could never be commercialized so Abbot Kinney built the amusement parks of Venice of America over the ocean.
