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Found objects made into art: Timothy Washington’s long-overdue solo show

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Read the news and it can be easy to think that art is all about money and glamor: splashy openings, $142 million paintings and rapper Drake snapping selfies at the…

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Feb 19, 2014 By Carolina Miranda
 
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Carmen Papalia and the art of walking blind

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Artist Carmen Papalia has performed “Blind Field Shuttle” in cities across North America. In it, he leads a conga line of people on a walk, everyone clutching the arm of…

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Dec 11, 2013 By Carolina Miranda
 
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‘Station to Station’: Riding the art train from Barstow to Los Angeles

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For the last twenty days, a group of writers, singers, artists and photographers have been making their way across the country in an old Amtrak train — staging rock concerts…

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Sep 26, 2013 By Carolina Miranda
 
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Photos: In ‘Nothing Left,’ artist Adriana Salazar finds art in what our bodies leave behind

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For centuries, artists have been obsessed with death. From elaborate Egyptian tombs to early Christian paintings of martyred saints — to contemporary artists, who use everything from dead sheep to…

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Aug 02, 2013 By Carolina Miranda
 
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Los Angeles school kids make fine art – with socks

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In an era of diminishing budgets, arts education in Los Angeles holds a precarious position. According to one estimate, more than half of all students in the L.A. Unified School…

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Mar 29, 2013 By Carolina Miranda
 
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Artist brings DNA processing to life on gallery walls

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The O.J. Simpson case will be remembered for a lot of things. A brutal double murder, a slow-motion car chase, a glove that didn’t fit. But on a legal level,…

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Feb 19, 2013 By Carolina Miranda
 
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When freeways meet fine art

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Traffic jams, sketchy underpasses, and towering grey walls. Southern California freeways aren’t exactly known for their physical charm. But earlier this month, a new kind of freeway overpass was inaugurated…

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Dec 26, 2012 By Carolina Miranda

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