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The Broad Museum opens its doors for a look beyond the veil

2015-09-23T09:02:00-04:00

The white cube museum to end all white cube museums has touched down in Los Angeles. This past Sunday, the personal post-war and contemporary art collection owned by billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, housed in Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s meshed white box, opened for public viewing as the brand new Broad Museum, located just south of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall on downtown’s Grand Avenue.

"LA's Grand Central : The Gentrification of the People's Market": Interview with director Dylan Valley

2014-08-27T17:47:00-04:00

Dylan Valley is a filmmaker from Cape Town who recently completed a master’s degree at the University of Southern California. While in Los Angeles, Valley produced a short documentary film about downtown’s Grand Central Market, and its continuing transformation.

Screen/Print #18: "New SubUrbanisms" by Judith K. De Jong

2014-06-09T10:16:00-04:00

The American suburbs no longer exist as physically and conceptually peripheral to the downtown, the central consciousness of urban development. According to Judith K. De Jong’s new book, New SubUrbanisms, the suburbs' mainstream designation as places of seclusion, domesticity, superficiality, and safety (set in comparison to their accompanying denser urban downtowns), has collapsed in the wake of a feedback loop between central city and suburbia.

Farmers Field: Bringing Football Back on a Need-to-Know Basis

2012-02-06T16:08:00-05:00

By Anthony Carfello with Orhan Ayyüce as curating editor

Over the past year, Los Angeles’ local news media and blogosphere have provided up-to-the-minute coverage of a new plan by Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), the professional sports and concert conglomerate behind several of the world’s entertainment venues, like The O2 arena in London, the Home Depot Center in Carson, Califonia, and Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai(1). CEO of AEG Tim Leiweke has proposed construction of a 68,000-seat(2) football stadium on the site of one existing wing of the Los Angeles Convention Center, adjacent to the campus of AEG’s already built and operating Staples Center, Nokia Theater, Grammy Museum, and ESPN Zone (as part of their L.A. Live complex), along Figueroa Street in the southwestern part of downtown.