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The Artist's Time and Place in Echo Park

Gordy Grundy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chelsea, Fine Arts, Echo Park, Arts, Greenwich Village, Artists, Venice Beach, Charles Rappleye, Pedro Kim, Metias Viegener, Street Art, Austin Young, Little Joy, Gordy Grundy, Shep Fairey, Artillery Magazine, Dave Burns, Mat Gleason, Tulsa Kinney, Fallen Fruit, Duce, Ball-Nouges, Gaston Nouges, Sharktoof, Modern Art, Los Angeles, Cryptik, Contemporary Art, Robert Morris, K-Town Cowboys, Keith Niles, Buffy Visick, Leslie and the Badgers, Ben Crowley, Leslie Stevens, Arts News
Gordy Grundy

Right here, right now, Echo Park in Los Angeles is a mad bonfire of energy and passion, a white flame that can burn no brighter.

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PLAN ForYourArt: November 4-10

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blum and Poe, Lacma, Amanda Ross-Ho, Arts, LeBasse Projects, Cherry and Martin, Parker Jones, Let Them Eat LACMA, Culver City, Laxart, Los Angeles, Edgar Arceneaux, Susanne Vielmetter, Nathalie Djurberg, Fallen Fruit, Ryan Heffington, Robin Rhode, Engagement Party, Moca, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

For their second Engagement Party, Heffington moves MOCA invites museum-goers to interpret staged dance tableaux through drawing.

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Plan ForYourArt July 29-August 3

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Perform! Now!, Lacma, Redcat, Chinatown, Tim Dechristopher, Eatlacma, Shana Lutker, Francois Ghebaly, Christine Marie & Ensemble, Andrea Bowers, Edgar Arceneaux, Human Resources, Raphael Xavier, Fallen Fruit, Rae Shao-Lin, NOW Festival, Glenn Kaino, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

This year's PERFORM! NOW! festival showcases more than 40 performances to take place throughout Chinatown's gallery district.

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The Edible Landscape Of Los Angeles (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edible Communities, Edible Excursions, Video, Green Living, Fallen Fruit, 5min, Los Angeles, Edible Landscaping, Organic Gardening, Gardening, Green News

You probably don't picture Los Angeles as one giant public garden, do you? Well Matias Viegener and David Burns are here to show you otherwise. KVIE...

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How Art Museums Are Striving to Stay Relevant for a New Generation

Sue Bell Yank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Open Engagement Conference, Lacma, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yoko Ono, Arts, John Latham, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Public Engagement, American Association of Museums, Machine Project, Mark Allen, Social Media, Hammer Museum, Social Practice, Fallen Fruit, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Guerilla Girls, Lygia Clark, Suzanne Lacy, Moca, Lucky Dragons, Allan Kaprow, Aam, Eatlacma, Slanguage, Knifeandfork, Los Angeles News
Sue Bell Yank

The overwhelming consensus is that younger generations of Americans eschew the largely passive role of audience, and demand participation from their art institutions.

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PLAN ForYourArt, February 4-7

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lacma, Art, Alexis Rochas, Machine Project, Museums, Hammer Museum, Echo Park, Fallen Fruit, Artists, Art Walk, Eric Owen Moss, Los Angeles, Sci-Arc, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Every week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt.

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Trading Backyard Bounty: Foraging For Fruit Gains Popularity

nytimes.com | Kim Severson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sharing, Independent Farmers, Organic Gardening, Fruit, Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Produce, Neighbors, Gardening, Giving, Fallen Fruit, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News

It was just another day of urban fruit foraging for Ms. Wadud, one of a growing number of people who looked around their cities, saw trees full of fru...

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Eating for Almost Nothing

Anneli Rufus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Shopping, Recessionista, Hypochondriacs, Food Stamps, Cooking, Scavenging, Food, Cordon Bleu, Fallen-Fruit, Fallen Fruit, Los Angeles, 99 Cent, Style News
Anneli Rufus

As Los Angeles-based Fallen Fruit wants us to know, America's city and suburban streets are rife with fruit trees growing in public spaces, or whose branches overhang sidewalks. Pick that!

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7 Ways to Grow Your Own Food and Save Money

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Canning, Eat Well Guide, Economy, Guerrilla Gardening, Fallen Fruit, Grow Your Own Food, Stimulus, Yes We Can, Edible Estates, Wall Street, Takepart, Herbs, Save Money, Detroit, Healthy Eating, Farming, Vegetarian, Victory Gardens, Csas, Organic, Food, Gardening, Green News
Sarah Newman

Tear up your front lawn and plant a garden. In the long-term, it will be a lot cheaper than shopping at the supermarket. And you can share your harvest with your community.

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