Artbound

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   3. Guerrilla Gowns and Performance Crafting

   13 years ago

   Artbound features paintings by Danny Heller and Tanya Aguiñiga's "performance crafting."

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   2. Origami and Worker’s Rug

   14 years ago

   Artbound features artwork inspired by the life and death of Kelly Thomas and more.

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   1. Jackrabbits and Date Farmers

   Finale 14 years ago

   The premiere episode of Artbound features the pop art of Coachella Valley artists the Date Farmers, the world of Muslim American fashion, an exploration of the Morongo Desert's "jackrabbit" homesteads, the history of steel houses in Palm Springs, and a musical performance by Cut Chemist.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   3. Interior Forest and Radio Sombra

   13 years ago

   Artbound features a collaborative project by Alexandra Grant and Hélène Cixous.

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   2. Portraits Among Friends and Melrose Graffiti

   13 years ago

   Artbound features the work of artist Shizu Saldamando, Nery Gabriel Lemus, and more.

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   1. Incendiary Traces and Fallen Fruit

   13 years ago

   Artbound showcases a draw-in at 29 Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center and more.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   6. Invisible Cities

   12 years ago

   Artbound presents a one hour special focused on the avant-garde opera, "Invisible Cities."

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   5. Salon of Beauty and Scar Printing

   12 years ago

   In this episode, Artbound provides an exclusive look at an avant-garde opera and more.

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   4. Gary Baseman and Watts Towers

   13 years ago

   This episode of Artbound features Paul Turounet, a photographer whose site-specific photographic portraits explore the various migrant peoples found traveling along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Next we go to on a visit to the Watts Towers to catch up on how scientists and community activists are seeking to preserve the Towers against the elements. Artbound reflects on Gary Baseman's mid-career retrospective "The Door is Always Open", which examines a long and varied career while focusing on his family and the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Then, Artbound the travels to the High Desert where visual artist Diane Best personifies the creative spirit found throughout the Joshua Tree region. Also, featuring a live studio performance by indie band Best Coast.

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   3. Chicano Batman

   13 years ago

   Chicano Batman is an East L.A.-based four-piece band that fuses funk, R&B, and more.

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   2. Songs in the Key of L.A.

   13 years ago

   This episode of Artbound, Songs in the Key of L.A. is a multi-platform collaboration between the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Public Library, and USC professor Josh Kun that brings to life the Library's extraordinary Southern California Sheet Music Collection. Five L.A. artists were invited to pick some sheet music, study it, and then interpret it in any style of their choosing. The finished products are now available for free download from the website of the Los Angeles Public Library, and Artbound produced short documentaries on the process.

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   1. AgH20: Silver and Water

   13 years ago

   In this episode, Artbound focuses on the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio. The Optics Division is on a quest for the perfect indexical image, an image not just of the valley but made from the valley. The team has been working on all aspects of production including the camera(s), the film stock, the developers and fixatives, all sourced from the dry lake bed. Bon and The Optics Division's tools include the "Liminal Camera," a portable camera and darkroom housed in a shipping container. The team can produce large black and white images matching the size of the container itself in a few hours. The special explores other tools that have been developed by the Optics Division including the "Silo Camera" located in a one hundred foot silo on the edge of the Owens Dry Lake Bed and Mine Camera. The rig is being used to see the mine shaft, unused for nearly 100 years, that provided the silver for the pioneering film industry.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   5. 100 Mules Walking The Los Angeles Aqueduct

   Finale 12 years ago

   "Artbound" travels with Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio as they perform "One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct," a commemorative artist action to reconnect Los Angeles to its water supply by walking the entire 240-mile route of the Los Angeles Aqueduct with a team of 100 hundred mules. The action marked the 100-year anniversary of the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

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   4. MOCAtv

   12 years ago

   Artbound presents an hour-long special featuring short, vibrant videos from MOCAtv, the art video channel developed as a digital extension of the education and exhibition programming of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). Featuring an eclectic mix of videos profiling artworks like Barry Le Va's "Shatterscatter" and prolific artists such as Sterling Ruby, Nan Goldin, and more.

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   3. East is Eden

   12 years ago

   In this episode, Artbound investigates arts practices from communities East of Los Angeles, venturing from Lincoln Heights to San Bernardino. Meet the group Metralleta de Oro, who specialize in Sonidero, a sub-genre of the Mexican cumbia in Lincoln Heights. In Boyle Heights, the group Public Matters’ Market Makeover project addresses the “grocery gap” in food deserts.

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   2. Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture

   12 years ago

   Machine Project recently invited and filmed over 20 artists to create performances that respond to notable architectural sites throughout Los Angeles, collectively creating The Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture. The project was part of the larger Getty initiative, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L. A., celebrating California’s modern architectural heritage.

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   1. Metralleta de Oro and Ultraviolet

   12 years ago

   In this episode, Artbound heads to San Bernardino to explore the tubular sandbagging construction techniques of the California Institute of Earth Architecture, whose handmade structures are redefining sustainable housing. In Boyle Heights, the group Public Matters’ Market Makeover project is addressing the "grocery gap" in "food deserts," areas that have limited access to quality, healthy food.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   8. America Deserta

   11 years ago

   Artbound travels to Southern California's desert regions. Featuring the landscape painting and video art of visual artist Diane Best whose work personifies the creative spirit found throughout the Joshua Tree region; the Coachella artists the Date Farmers who infuse abstract expressionism with a politically charged, pop culture update; a draw-in with Hillary Mushkin's Incendiary Traces at the 29 Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center that challenges participants to become conscious of militarized landscapes; the superadobe construction techniques of Cal-Earth whose experimental designs are challenging the ubiquitous cookie-cutter suburban communities in the urbanized southwestern Mojave Desert; Jackrabbit Homesteads and the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin; and the eclectic practice of Joshua Tree's "Art Queen" Shari Elf; and a performance by Daniel Lanois.

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   7. Social Practice

   11 years ago

   Artbound explores Social Practice arts throughout Southern California. Featuring Olga Koumoundouros' occupation of foreclosed homes in Los Angeles; The Workers' Rug/La Alfombra Del Trabajador, an art project by day laborers, organizers affiliated with IDEPSCA, artist Katie Bachler and Jade Thacker, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum; Public Matters' Market Makeover project addressing the "grocery gap" in "food deserts," areas that have limited access to quality, healthy food; the collective Fallen Fruit, who map local public fruit trees, encouraging us to rethink our relationship to food and public space; and a performance by Moses Sumney.

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   6. Bukowski Reads Bukowski

   11 years ago

   Artbound digs into the KCET vaults to uncover a gem from the early 1970s. Iconoclast writer and poet Charles Bukowski reads from his work to a live audience. Also featuring candid behind the scenes footage.

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   5. Virtual Domains

   12 years ago

   In this episode of Artbound, we visit the Zorthian Ranch artist community in Altadena. We also view some of the current art installations at LAX airport. Micol Hebron confronts gender inequality in the art world through her project Gallery Tally. Alan Nakagawa gives an eclectic musical performance utilizing ambient sounds collected from the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Also, graphic artist and music video director David Lewandowski takes us into his world of arcade games and modern expressionism. And super composer Daniel Lanois performs a live song from his album Flesh and Machine.

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   4. 50th Flashback: The Works, 60s In 90s

   12 years ago

   Artbound" dives into the vaults to uncover groundbreaking 1980s & 1990s arts programming.

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   3. Without Borders/Sin Fronteras

   12 years ago

   The Artbound episode "Without Borders/Sin Fronteras" visits Kathy Kobayashi who discusses the Shades of L.A. photography archive at the Downtown L.A. Library, which explores community-based photos illuminating diversity in Southern California. Then, Ana Serrano showcases her cardboard-constructed pieces based on her cultural explorations around Los Angeles. Next, Artbound travels to Mexicali Rose, an artist organization in Mexicali, where locals are encouraged to create art to galvanize community involvement. We also witness performances in Guatemala from Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras (Day Labor Theater Without Borders) whose work engages people who have been displaced and deported to Guatemala. Plus, experience the son jarocho stylings of L.A.-based band Quetzal.

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   2. 50th Flashback: Earthworks #4

   12 years ago

   Artbound digs into KCET's vaults to uncover groundbreaking arts and culture programming from the 1980's and 90's. In this episode, Artbound presents the show Earthworks, an exploration of land art featuring the work of artist Lita Alberquerque, sculptor Christo, architect Tom Mayne and more.

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   1. MOCAtv with Philippe Vergne

   12 years ago

   Artbound's fifth season kicks off with an exciting collaboration with MOCAtv, featuring all original pieces including Wildflowering L.A., a Los Angeles county-wide public initiative by artist Fritz Haeg; a performance art video featuring the movement group WIFE; painter John Knuth's unusual practice of getting flies to "paint" on canvas; the installation and de-installation of Jacob Hashimoto's "Gas Giant" at the MOCA Pacific Design Center; and video game designers Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago known for designing games with emotion. Featuring an exclusive interview with new Director of MOCA Philippe Vergne.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   7. MOCAtv: Episode 3

   Finale 11 years ago

   This "Artbound" special episode, in partnership with MOCAtv, features The Museum of Contemporary Art's current programming, including an Elaine Sturtevant retrospective and exhibition "William Pope.L's Trinket." The episode also features Martine Syms, Jeffrey Vallance, Jasmin Shokrian, and music videos by Devin Kenny and Teengirl Fantasy.

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   6. Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser

   11 years ago

   An Artbound special episode in partnership with the Grand Central Art Center. “Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser” considers the usage of “female Hysteria” throughout the decades in operatic form. Vireo is the brainchild of long-time collaborators, composer Lisa Bielawa and librettist Erik Ehn.

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   5. The State of Creativity

   11 years ago

   An Artbound special episode on the Otis Report on the Creative Economy: Using key data from the newest issue of the report, the documentary explores the vibrant network of creativity in Southern California, examining how creative businesses are investing in community building and driving economic activity in Boyle Heights; the network of industries involved in the denim manufacturing; and more.

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   4. Monomania L.A.

   11 years ago

   A series of short documentary films in partnership with USC Libraries profiles four "L.A. as Subject" collectors who have obsessively focused on a narrow slice of Southern California history. Featuring Carol Wells, Founder of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics; David Boule, private collector and author of "The Orange and the Dream of California," and more.

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   3. Steel Modern

   11 years ago

   Artbound explores the architectural past and present in Southern California. Featuring Danny Heller’s paintings of mid-century modern architecture in Palm Springs; the superadobe construction techniques of Cal-Earth whose experimental designs are challenging the ubiquitous cookie-cutter suburban communities in the urbanized southwestern Mojave Desert and more.

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   2. Borderlands

   11 years ago

   Artbound explores art 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.

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   1. American Purgatory

   11 years ago

   Artbound explores the paintings of Marc Trujillo who brings the techniques of the Dutch Masters to the subject of commercial architecture and fast-food in Southern California; Kim Stringfellow’ s Mojave Project discovering the eclectic desert communities of the Mojave Desert; Dave Lefner’s colored wood block prints of neon signs in Los Angeles; and the subculture of Brazilian cholos.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   4. Black History Month Special

   10 years ago

   Artbound celebrates Black History Month with a special episode.

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   3. Art and Protest

   10 years ago

   "Artbound" explores art created amidst social upheaval, including the life and work of Noah Purifoy whose practice was radically transformed by the Watts Riots; the emergence of Chicano printmaking in response to the Chicano Moratorium; Andrea Bower and Noe Gaytan whose work engages with the contemporary struggle for raising the minimum wage and unionization of adjuncts in higher education; and Michael Maltzan's design of the Star Apartments which addresses the issue of homelessness in Downtown Los Angeles.

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   2. MOCA: The Art of Our Time

   10 years ago

   Artbound collaborates with the Museum of Contemporary Art to feature videos from their channel MOCAtv. The series showcases upcoming exhibitions, historical segments, artist documentaries, and original video art pieces created in collaboration with artists, musicians and fashion designers. Features interviews with Museum Director Philippe Vergne, and leading curators.

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   1. Afrofuturism

   10 years ago

   KCETLink's Emmy-award winning series Artbound returns for a new season with The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto, an hour-long documentary film exploring five Southern California artists engaged with black aesthetic production and the problems of representation. The film explores the tension between conventional, segregated channels of distribution and black imagination, and the potential for using Afrofuturism to assert a different set of values with which to imagine the future.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

1. E7

   7. Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser

   7 years ago

   An Artbound special episode in partnership with the Grand Central Art Center.

2. E6

   6. Hopscotch - An Opera for the 21st Century

   Finale 10 years ago

   Artbound explores the groundbreaking opera Hopscotch, which unfolded in cars throughout Los Angeles, telling a single story of a disappearance across time. Audiences experienced the work in both the intimacy of a car, where artists and audiences shared a confined space, or in a larger central hub, where all the journeys were live streamed to create a dizzying panorama of life in Los Angeles.

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   5. Third L.A. with Architectural Critic Christopher Hawthorne

   10 years ago

   Architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne partners with Artbound to look at the future of Los Angeles by examining its architecture, urban planning, transportation and changing demographics, giving us a glimpse of Los Angeles as a model of urban renewal for the nation and the world.

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   4. MOCA - Beyond The Museum Walls

   10 years ago

   Artbound explores the programming of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, investigating new programming and curatorial approaches that are redefining what it means to be a 21st century museum. This episode features three new programs by The Underground Museum, Wolvesmouth, and Public Fiction.

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   3. Fallujah - Art, Healing, and PTSD

   10 years ago

   U.S. Marine Sergeant Christian Ellis was a machine gunner in Iraq, whose platoon was ambushed, leaving him with a broken back and only one of a few survivors. Ellis returned home to join millions of Americans who struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and inspired the first opera about the Iraq war -- "Fallujah" -- a production by the Long Beach Opera.

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   2. Artesanos / Artisans

   10 years ago

   The highly skilled labor of artisans migrating from Mexico and Latin America are the backbone of high-end design and retail in Los Angeles, producing some of the most exquisite furniture, textiles, and design goods. Artbound uncovers their stories and their role in making Los Angeles and Southern California the creative capital of the world.

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   1. Charles Lummis - Reimagining the American West

   10 years ago

   In this new season, Artbound travels back to pre-industrial Los Angeles to explore one of its key and most controversial figures – Charles Lummis. Writer and editor of the LA Times, avid collector and preservationist, Indian rights activist, and founder of LA’s first museum, – The Southwest – Lummis’s genius and idiosyncratic personality captured the ethos of an era and a region.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   8. The Art of Basketweaving

   Finale 8 years ago

   Native American basketry has long been viewed as a community craft, yet the artistic quality and value of these baskets are on par with other fine art. Now Native peoples across the country are revitalizing basketry traditions and the country looks to California as a leader in basket weaving revitalization.

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   7. Artist and Mother

   8 years ago

   While matriarchs may hold enormous symbolism in art history, women taking on motherhood may be the last taboo in contemporary art. Mother artists Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Tanya Aguñiga, Rebecca Campbell and Andrea Chung confront the stakes while exploring the realities of art and motherhood.

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   6. No Trespassing: A Survey of Environmental Art

   8 years ago

   The natural beauty of California has inspired artists from around the world. Today, as artists continue to engage with California’s environment, they echo and critique earlier art practices that represent nature in “The Golden State” in a particular way. Featuring artists Richard Misrach and Hillary Mushkin.

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   5. La Raza

   8 years ago

   In East Los Angeles during the late 1960s and 1970s, a group of young activists used creative tools like writing and photography as a means for community organizing, providing a platform for the Chicano Movement in the form of the bilingual newspaper/magazine La Raza.

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   4. Variedades: Olvera Street

   8 years ago

   This look at Los Angeles’ Olvera Street is part-history lesson and part-immersion in stereotype of the birthplace of Los Angeles. Emmy® award-winning journalist, author and musician Rubén Martínez, explores the sometimes-violent, 200-year struggle for the political and symbolic control of the city as told in “Variedades” – an interdisciplinary performance series.

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   3. Electric Earth: The Art of Doug Aitken

   8 years ago

   This episode profiles prominent artist Doug Aitken who for more than 20 years has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His multichannel video installations, sculptures, photographs, publications, happenings and architectural works demonstrate the nature and structure of our ever-mobile, ever-changing, image-based contemporary condition.

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   2. Desert X

   8 years ago

   The vast, strange, sometimes contradictory world of the urban desert and its people are explored in 11 public art exhibits and their respective locations. Desert X is a site-specific biennial exhibition that first took place in the spring of 2017 where artists from different parts of the world were invited to create work in response to the unique conditions of the Coachella Valley.

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   1. That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles

   8 years ago

   During his time spent in Southern California in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Frank Lloyd Wright accelerated the search for L.A.'s authentic architecture that was suitable to the city's culture and landscape. Writer/Director Chris Hawthorne, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, explores the houses the legendary architect built in Los Angeles.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   5. Jeffrey Deitch's Los Angeles

   7 years ago

   Jeffrey Deitch returns to Los Angeles after a tumultuous run as the director of MOCA.

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   4. How Sweet The Sound: Gospel In Los Angeles

   7 years ago

   Gospel music would not be what it is today if not for the impact left by Los Angeles.

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   3. Día de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead

   7 years ago

   Día de los Muertos has been adapted for centuries from its pre-colonial roots to today.

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   2. Heath Ceramics: The Making of a California Classic

   7 years ago

   "Artbound" looks at the dinnerware of Heath Ceramics and the designs of Edith Heath.

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   1. Masters of Modern Design

   Finale 7 years ago

   From the iconic typeface of “The Godfather” book cover to Herman Miller’s Noguchi table, the influence of Japanese American artists and designers in postwar American art and design is unparalleled. While this second generation of Japanese American artists have been celebrated in various publications and exhibitions with their iconic work, less-discussed are the effects of the WWII incarceration.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   4. The Watts Towers Arts Center

   Finale 6 years ago

   The Watts Towers Arts Center was founded by artists and educators in the 1960s and has been a beacon of art and culture in the community for decades. This episode features the work of artists including Noah Purifoy, John Outterbridge, Betye Saar, Charles White and Mark Steven Greenfield.

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   3. Current:LA Food

   6 years ago

   This 2019 L.A.-wide exhibition of public art and events based around the theme of food. Each artist interpreted a different aspect or issue surrounding food or food systems in the city. Activating public parks throughout the city, artists created works to spark conversation about what it means to live in Los Angeles and how to work together for a sustainable and hopeful future.

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   2. The New West Coast Sound: An L.A. Jazz Legacy

   6 years ago

   Growing up amongst jazz legends within the deep musical traditions of Leimert Park, drummer Mekala Session and his peers grapple with how to preserve this rich legacy—striving to carry forward the tenets that took root in the work of Horace Tapscott and his Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. This is the story of Los Angeles’ emerging generation of community-focused black musicians.

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   1. Light & Space

   6 years ago

   In a world filled with noise, distractions and chaos, a number of artists seek to push the boundaries of perception and experience. The Light and Space movement of the 1960s explored minimalism with a uniquely Californian spin — with a keen attention to the interaction of light and space.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   6. Mustache Mondays: The Power of an LGBTQ Party

   Finale 4 years ago

   See how a roving LGBTQ night club event in Los Angeles called “Mustache Mondays” became a creative incubator for today’s leading edge contemporary artists. This film examines the history of these spaces and how they shaped the Queer cultural fabric unique to Southern California.

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   5. Imagined Wests: Painting a Multilayered Picture of the West

   4 years ago

   Southern California’s Autry Museum of the American West is working to recontextualize a large mural, dating from the Disney Imagineers-designed museum’s opening in the 1980s. It depicts a widely accepted mythology of the West, which prioritizes white settler colonialism at the expense of other perspectives including those of Native Americans, Black settlers, Asian Americans and women.

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   4. Desert X 2021

   5 years ago

   The desert is both a place and idea. Learn how the recurring site-specific, international art exhibition “Desert X” in 2021 explored issues such as land ownership, water scarcity and overlooked histories. Desert X includes newly commissioned works by 12 participating artists from eight countries.

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   3. Sweet Land: The Making of a Myth

   5 years ago

   Learn how “Sweet Land,” named the Best Opera of 2020 by the Music Critics Association of North America, was made. See how it recasts the origin story of the United States through the eyes of Native Americans and immigrants. Explore how this revisionist opera was shaped by an unusual collaboration of diverse creative voices and what it says about the roots of our divided nation today.

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   2. Life Centered: The Helen Jean Taylor Story

   5 years ago

   Renowned ceramist and educator Helen Jean Taylor has not only crafted timeless artworks inspired by colors found in home gardens, but also helped her students improve their mental health through the art of throwing clay.

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   1. Con Safos: The Story of Chicano Music Pioneer Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara

   5 years ago

   A pioneer of Chicano rock ’n’ roll, Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara recounts his life in music, performance art and activism — from his time as lead singer of the doo-wop band The Apollo Brothers, his collaborations with Frank Zappa and Cheech Marin, and his crossover into the Chicano performance art world of the 1960s and 1970s — all of which shaped Mexican American culture.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

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   6. A Rubén Ortiz-Torres Story

   Finale 4 years ago

   Since the early-80s, artist Rubén Ortiz-Torres has been working as a photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker and video producer. Often associated with the development of a Mexican form of postmodernism, Ortiz-Torres’s life is a collage that explores the social and aesthetic transformations related to cross-cultural exchange and globalization.

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   5. Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond

   4 years ago

   Giant Robot was a bimonthly magazine that created an appetite for Asian and Asian American pop culture, exploring Sawtelle Boulevard as a Japanese American enclave. Founded in 1994 and driven by Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong, it resulted in a legacy of Asian American artists that achieved worldwide recognition such as David Choe and James Jean.

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   4. A New Deal for Los Angeles

   4 years ago

   When FDR created the New Deal, also known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as a way to provide paying jobs to millions of unemployed Americans recovering from The Great Depression. Over 140 projects were completed by the WPA in Los Angeles. This episode highlights many of these works still standing and asks the question what would a WPA look like if it still existed today.

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   3. Arte Cósmico

   4 years ago

   Latinx artists have been taking center stage at international art fairs, high-end art galleries, and established museums. This episode follows noted artists rafa esparza, Beatriz Cortez, Patrick Martinez, Guadalupe Rosales, Gabriella Sanchez and Gabriela Ruiz working in Los Angeles, exploring notions of identity, language, immigration, queerness, religious and Aztec iconography, and capitalism.

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   2. Duchamp Comes to Pasadena

   4 years ago

   In 1963, Marcel Duchamp, considered by many to be the father of conceptual art, held his first-ever career retrospective in Los Angeles. The exhibition’s opening night became a defining moment for generations of artists who would go on to revolutionize the contemporary art world.

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   1. Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book

   4 years ago

   In 1981, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez wrote “Love and Rockets #1,” a self-published comic book edited by their brother Mario. They sold that first issue at conventions for a dollar apiece and submitted it to be reviewed at The Comics Journal. Instead, Gary Groth, offered to republish it through Fantagaphics Books. The brothers accepted and made graphic novel publishing history.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

1. E6

   6. East West Players: A Home on Stage

   3 years ago

   Chronicling the 58-year history of the longest running theatre of color in the U.S.

2. E5

   5. Angel City Press: L.A. through the Pages

   3 years ago

   Angel City Press has been shaping and influencing public understanding of LA for decades.

3. E4

   4. Artists-In-Residence

   3 years ago

   Artists-In-Residence programs provide artists opportunities to create uninterrupted work.

4. E3

   3. L.A. Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement

   3 years ago

   Following the Watts Uprising, UCLA increased film program enrollment of students of color.

5. E2

   2. América Tropical: The Martyr Mural of Siqueiros

   3 years ago

   David Alfaro Siqueiros created Olvera Street’s popular mural with an innovative technique.

6. E1

   1. Chinatown Punk Wars

   3 years ago

   Two Chinese restaurants became the unlikely epicenter of L.A.’s burgeoning punk scene.

"Artbound" is an Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series that examines the lives, works and creative processes of arts and culture innovators making an impact in Southern California and beyond. Through broadcast episodes and multimedia projects, "Artbound" brings to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity.

1. E5

   5. Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement

   2 years ago

   The life of the visionary musician, dancer and activist Nobuko Miyamoto.

2. E4

   4. Black Art: A Brockman Gallery Legacy

   2 years ago

   Brockman Gallery was the center of a community of Black artists in L.A. from 1967-1990.

3. E3

   3. Arts & Architecture: The Case Study House Program

   2 years ago

   West Coast Modernism took hold in post-WWII with the “Case Study Houses” program.

4. E2

   2. Blended Worlds: The Fusion of Art & Science at JPL

   2 years ago

   NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory transforms science into awe-inspiring creative projects.

5. E1

   1. The Cheech

   2 years ago

   Follow Cheech Marin's journey from comedy icon to Chicano art advocate.