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How an Iconic Western Helped Bring Democracy to Poland

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'Opera Can Feel Like a Colonialist Art Form'

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'Tranimal' Subverts Ideas of Gender and Beauty

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Rush Davis on Stepping Over His Fears

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Traveling Museum Shares Black History in Miniature

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Future Perfect: Danny Heller's Midcentury Modern Paintings

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Life Centered: The Helen Jean Taylor Story

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What Does It Mean to Be a Chicano Artist?

While on a pilgrimage to Palenque in Mexico 1974, Ruben Funkahautl Guevara grapples with his Mexican and American identities. He was neither one or the other, Guevara says. While contemplating his path in life, it dawns on him what “Chicano” meant, not an ethnic term, but a word used to describe an activist orientation. His thoughts leads to his journey to become a Chicano culture sculptor.

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Variedades: Olvera Street | BTS image Olvera AB s9

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53:40

Artbound

S9 E4: Variedades - Olvera Street

This look at Los Angeles’ Olvera Street is part-history lesson and part-immersion in stereotype of the birthplace of Los Angeles.

Season 9 Episode 904

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

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50:40

Artbound

S9 E3: Electric Earth - The Art of Doug Aitken

For more than 20 years, Doug Aitken has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His diverse works demonstrate the nature and structure of our ever-mobile, ever-changing, image-based contemporary condition.

Season 9 Episode 903

Mirage at Desert X by Doug Aitken | Still from shoot

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51:30

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S9 E2: Desert X

The vast, strange, sometimes contradictory world of the urban desert and its people are explored in 11 public art exhibits and their respective locations scattered throughout Coachella Valley.

Season 9 Episode 902

Hollyhock House Frank Lloyd Wright still AB s9

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56:30

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S9 E1: That Far Corner - Frank Lloyd Wright In Los Angeles

Frank Lloyd Wright accelerated the search for L.A.'s authentic architecture. This episode explores the provocative theory that his early homes in L.A. were also a means of artistic catharsis for Wright.

Season 9 Episode 901

Third L.A. with Architectural Critic Christopher Hawthorne

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55:40

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S8 E5: Third L.A. with Architecture Critic Christopher Hawthorne

Architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne partners with Artbound for an episode that looks into the future of Los Angeles.

Season 8 Episode 805

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51:43

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S8 E3: Fallujah: Art, Healing, and PTSD

USMC Sergeant Christian Ellis was a machine gunner in Iraq, whose platoon was ambushed, leaving him with a broken back and only one of a few survivors.

Season 8 Episode 804