Lighthearted street art delights (and confuses) downtown L.A. visitors: The artists intended to be anonymous, but their papier-mache creations generated so much buzz that soon friends and strangers were showering them with praise.
Photo: A papier-mache surfer falls into the L.A. River near the 6th Street Bridge. Credit: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times
“Overlooking a parking lot at the busy intersection of 2nd and Hill streets, the three papier-mache deer have opened eyes to an unattended grassy slope overshadowed by the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Stanley Mosk Courthouse,” Rosanna Xia reports.
Photo: The deer sculpture at 2nd and Hill Streets. Credit: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times
Artist pays homage to L.A.’s unseen workers: Ramiro Gomez’s cardboard cutouts of nannies, gardeners, valets and housekeepers have appeared, in silent tribute, around the wealthy districts of the city.
Most pieces last a day or two if Gomez is lucky. Once, a valet parker he planted outside a lot near the Sunset Strip made it four days.
Gomez writes his contact information on the back of each piece so people can tell him where the art ended up. So far, no one has reached out.
At first it was tough to let go. He’d stand by for a while to see people’s reactions, then take the cutout down and lug it back home.
But then Gomez realized it was not his place to keep public art out of view.
So he learned to walk away.
Photo: Ramiro Gomez attaches his painting of a nanny against a cyclone fence in West Hollywood Park. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times
… And here’s some more information on the artists!
Street art ‘sunbathers’ draw double-take in downtown L.A.: The life-size guerrilla art installation on Broadway between 1st and 2nd streets in downtown Los Angeles has been drawing attention since Tuesday, when it mysteriously appeared.
Photo: Mannequin sunbathers lay out their towels and beach chairs in a dirt pit on Broadway and 1st Street in downtown Los Angeles. Credit: Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles Times
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Street art ‘sunbathers’ draw double-take in downtown L.A.: The life-size guerrilla art installation on Broadway between 1st and 2nd streets in downtown Los Angeles has been drawing attention since Tuesday, when it mysteriously appeared.
Photo: Mannequin sunbathers lay out their towels and beach chairs in a dirt pit on Broadway and 1st Street in downtown Los Angeles. Credit: Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles Times
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London — People break a world record as they take part in the world’s largest and longest 3-D anamorphic street painting, which is almost 200 feet long with a surface area of about 9,600 square feet.
View more from today’s Pictures in the News feature on Framework.
Photo credit: Matt Dunham / Associated Press
After nearly two years of planning, prodding and debate, a group of Pasadena residents finally got its big wish: The city let them permanently stick their 18-foot fork in the road.
Photo: File photo of “The Fork in the Road” in Pasadena. Credit: Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times
L.A. to draw a finer line on murals as art, not ads: Under pressure from artists, the council is revising a 2002 law banning murals on most private property to legalize the city’s best-known works and some more recent pieces.
Photo: Ivan Salinas paints over his artwork in Valley Village after Barbara Black was fined by the city for an illegal mural. Remember this story from April? It was pretty heartbreaking. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times
On a divisive dam, a snippy bit of graffiti: An anonymous band of artists paints a huge pair of scissors and a long dotted line on obsolete Matilija Dam near Ojai. The message? Tear the thing down already.
Photo: Matilija Dam near Ojai. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times
Huge artwork suddenly appears in Santa Monica neighborhood: Tarps are pulled off to reveal a four-story-high series of colorful square panels by street artists Risk and Retna affixed to the shell of what will be a new home. The intent is to highlight ocean pollution. The city says it must go.
Photo: Corlin hugs his daughter Emilie in front of the work by street artists Risk and Retna. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times
The writing on Kabul’s walls: A group of nascent graffiti artists work in the shadows as they take spray can to wall to make political statements. Corrupt politicians, drug traffickers and warlords are a favorite target.
Photo: Kabul graffiti artist Dy, aka Dysprosium, tags a wall in the Afghan capital. “You need to speak the truth and accept risks,” says the gangly twentysomething. Credit: David Gill / For The Times
