Coming This Weekend!
Painting, Bombing and Buffing L.A.'s Freeway Walls: The Birth, Life and Slow Death of the Olympic Festival Murals 1983-2012.
Sat. May 12 @ 2 pm.
Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
Stefano Block will discuss the murals based on in-depthethnographic research conducted on the graffiti community and historical research conducted on L.A.’s Chicano and mainstream muralist traditions. Bloch argues that two decades of bad policy, belligerent graffiti abatement, and combative freeway bombers conspired to turn aesthetically inviting freeway walls into alienating beige eyesores. He will also be showing images from the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and sharing excerpts from his personal archive of interviews, images, and reflections that focus on the appearance of L.A.’s public walls.
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