Lincoln Heights Vs. Sony

The 'Urban' or 'Corporate Public Art" I reported last week has now hit the local TV news. You can watch a clip from CBS 2/KCAL 9.

James Hahn is Still Mayor (In Hiding)

UPDATE on yesterday's post about DCA's webpage. The confusing thing is that there are TWO homepages for DCA. There is the one I happened upon last night at http://culturela.org/index.html and the one at http://culturela.org/index.htm. Confused?

Notice the last word in the URL. The latter says .htm (Villaraigosa) and the former is .html (Hahn). And with that, I'll let you conspiracy theorists go at it.



































These two men think alike!

James Hahn is still Mayor?

The City of L.A.'s Cultural Affairs Department webpage has a mission statement attributed to James Hahn, who is credited as Mayor. Now that's a good way to increase your funding and resources under the Villaraigosa administration - just pretend he doesn't exist!

Corporate Public Art in L.A.

Curbed LA reports on the "Public Art" that is actually an advertisement for Sony's PSP. Then LAist chimes in too. Lots of links within those links, happy reading.

Warren Beatty - The Governor for Arts

"{Annette} Bening declined to speculate after her appearance Friday on what arts and education funding might be like under a Gov. Beatty," reports the San Luis Obispo Tribune back in October. On October 7th, Beatty's wife spoke at the State Capitol about
Arts Education.

Assemblyman Paul Koretz (WeHo, Studio City, Hollywood, BevHills) blogs about this: "Each day we don't devote funding for the arts in our public schools is a missed opportunity to keep education interesting and exciting for our students."