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fromJuxtapoz
1 day ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Israel Campos "Echoes" @ Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles

These paintings reveal the layers of history that undergird modern Los Angeles. Yaanga Lies Under the 101 imagines the city's earliest Tongva inhabitants as they made their home on the land that, in the modern day, runs beneath the Hollywood Freeway. Campos's process mimics this archaeological layering: each canvas begins with a screenprinted underlayer that is then painted over in acrylic, and then once again layered with screenprinted details.
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Los Angeles
fromSFGATE
3 weeks ago

121-year-old motel burns down in Hollywood fire

The historic Hollywood Center Motel's El Nido central house and two bungalows were destroyed in a pre-dawn fire after a blaze three months earlier.
Arts
fromARTnews.com
1 month ago

Alex Prager's Immersive 'Mirage Factory' Brings the History of Los Angeles to Miami Beach's Historic Golden Age Theater

Alex Prager's Mirage Factory stages miniature, surreal Los Angeles set pieces and sensory environments that compress landmarks, history, and illusion into an unnerving, cinematic experience.
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fromTasting Table
4 months ago

The Los Angeles Chili Bowl Chain You Won't Find Open Anymore - Tasting Table

Chili Bowl was a 1930s–40s Los Angeles chili chain famous for bowl-shaped programmatic-architecture buildings and its "chili size" hamburger smothered in signature chili.
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