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Mirage at Desert X by Doug Aitken | Still from shoot

Desert X

Season 9 Episode 2
51:30
Installation view of Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, September 10, 2016–January 15, 2017 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | Joshua White

Electric Earth: The Art of Doug Aitken

Season 9 Episode 3
50:40
Variedades: Olvera Street | BTS image Olvera AB s9

Variedades: Olvera Street

Season 9 Episode 4
53:40
Boy on a bicycle | Debra Weber, Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center La Raza AB s9

Artbound | La Raza

Season 9 Episode 5
57:10
Artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle with her son, Johari | Still from KCET Artbound's "Artist and Mother" Mother AB s9

Artist and Mother

Season 9 Episode 7
56:40
Basket woven by Linda Yamane | Still from Artbound "Art of Basket Weaving" AB s9

The Art of Basketweaving

Season 9 Episode 8
56:34
Masters of Modern Design

Masters of Modern Design

Season 10 Episode 1
56:06
Woman in calavera face paint during Día de los Muertos | Photo from "Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead" ABs10

Dia de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead

Season 10 Episode 3
56:18
Jeffrey Deitch at his desk | Still from "Artbound" Jeffrey Deitch's Los Angeles

Jeffrey Deitch's Los Angeles

Season 10 Episode 5
54:08
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Artbound

That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright In Los Angeles

Season 9 Episode 1

During his time spent in Southern California in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Frank Lloyd Wright accelerated the search for an authentic L.A. architecture that was suitable to the city's culture and landscape. Writer/Director Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, explores the houses the legendary architect built in Los Angeles. The documentary also delves into the critic's provocative theory that these homes were also a means of artistic catharsis for Wright, who was recovering from a violent tragic episode in his life.


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