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A night at the Welcome Inn
We spend this week’s show at a one-time musical happening in a motel on Colorado Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound converts a block of rooms into experimental music stages … Continue reading
Random musical moments
On this episode of Hear in the City, we take an eclectic tour of Los Angeles-based music. We go to the Nethercutt collection– a private showcase of intricate, hand-crafted music boxes featuring pianos with tiny hammers shaped like bees and one … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Boyle Heights, Downtown, film, MOCA, music, public radio, street art, Sylmar, transportation, Venice
Tagged Adam Hyman, Alternative Projections, Aurelio Reyes, Erin Scott, Jesse Lerner, L.A. Film Forum", Mariachi Plaza, music boxes, Nethercutt Collection, pie-organs, Sara Harris, Venice Beach
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Performance, protest, prayer in public space
In honor of our one-year anniversary on Hear in the City, we bring you a show about protest, performance, and prayer in the public space. We visit the Asco arts exhibition “The Elite of the Obscure” at … Continue reading
19th century transportation in the 21st century: 6/28/2011
On this week’s Hear in the City, we launch a new series called Two Wheels and a Mic by checking in with artist, educator, and bicycle activist Patrick Miller about an incident in Los Angeles that made national news last … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, bicycling, culture in the city, economy and equality, film, infrastructure, LAPD, public radio, smog, Special Series, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, urban environment
Tagged Critical Mass, cycling in Los Angeles, experimental film, Hear in the City, James Benning, Jesse Lerner, Midnight Ridazz, Patrick Miller, RR, Sara Harris
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Art in the Streets
We’ve been following the public conversation surrounding censorship, street art, and MOCA‘s popular Art in the Streets exhibition at the Geffen Temporary Contemporary museum in downtown Los Angeles. In this segment, Hear in the City arts editor Jesse Lerner breaks down some of … Continue reading
04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series
Malick Sidibé
Hear in the City arts editor, Jesse Lerner, heads over to M and B Arts Gallery in West Hollywood, where an exhibit featuring the work of famed Malian photographer Malik Sidibé is on display through until the end of the … Continue reading
2/07/2011: it’s the year of the Rabbit
Maya Goded
This past Saturday evening, Mexican photographer Maya Goded inaugurated a solo exhibition called Las Olvidadas at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside. Goded is a documentarian associated with the Magnum cooperative and known for her work in marginalized and … Continue reading
1/24/2011: alliance building and San Francisco cinema space
San Francisco cinema space
For this next segment, we’re going to the cinema space of San Francisco, which has long been a hotbed of alternative arts production as well as radical politics. A collaborative team of three media curators–Steve Seid, Kathy Geeritz, and Steve … Continue reading
12/20/2010: walking the city
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space
Jesse Lerner reviews a new show of South American avant garde work Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, is the first museum exhibition to situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and … Continue reading






