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Old-time Venice resident and historian Arnold Springer explains who Venice's founder was.
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While he was a contemporary of the Ferus artists,John Baldesarri was never part of the group.Baldesarri did not care much about their attitudes towards art.
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Maryjane is an activist, artist, poet, and documentarian. In the 1960s and 1970s, Maryjane lived in the cottage, now owned by Orson Bean and Alley Mills.
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Over the years, Longtime residents Orson Bean and Alley Mills have witnessed an increase in housing prices along with a growth of reclusive behavior in new residents along the canals.
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Lorcan O'Herlihy s intensely preoccupied with the idea of density and planning as a means of solving environmental issues in Venice and beyond.
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Artist Ed Ruscha describes his emotions as he drove to Los Angeles, at the age of 19, from Oklahoma City.
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Glen Irani's home in the Venice canals is a laboratory of ideas, a sketchpad on the new vernacular of Venice residential architecture.
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Developers are scowled at by locals, and Frank Murphy is not exempt. Viewed as catalysts for unwanted change, they bring in outsiders and push insiders out, while plowing the land in order to build their sky fortresses.
Standing at the intersection of Boyle and 1st, one gets the feeling that Boyle Heights owns Los Angeles.
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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.
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Whitney Sander and designer Catherine Holliss' house in the Venice canals is an idea house.Embracing a myriad of materials, much like skin and bones shelter and shape the human body.
With Students from Lock High School Watts can be considered the epicenter of Los Angeles' working class history - a microcosm of America's dramatic…
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