{"id":665,"date":"2012-04-06T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"painting-bombing-and-buffing-l-a-s-freeway-walls-the-birth-life-and-slow-death-of-the-olympic-festival-murals-1983-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2012\/04\/06\/painting-bombing-and-buffing-l-a-s-freeway-walls-the-birth-life-and-slow-death-of-the-olympic-festival-murals-1983-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting, Bombing and Buffing L.A.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Freeway Walls The Birth, Life, and Slow Death of the Olympic Festival Murals, 1983\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano Bloch will discuss the birth, life, and slow death of L.A.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iconic Olympic Festival freeway murals. His talk is based on in-depth ethnographic research conducted on the graffiti community and historical research conducted on L.A.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chicano and mainstream muralist traditions. Bloch argues that two decades of bad policy, belligerent graffiti abatement, and combative freeway bombers conspired to turn aesthetically inviting freeway walls into alienating beige eyesores. He will also be showing images from the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and sharing excerpts from his personal archive of interviews, images, and reflections that focus on the appearance of L.A.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public walls.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Photo Collection and the Art, Music, &amp; Recreation Department, presented by Photo Friends<\/p>\n<p>Parking is available at 524 S. Flower St. Garage (show your LAPL library card at the Central Library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s information desk to receive a validation for reduced rates). Handicap accessibility available.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-665\" data-postid=\"665\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-665 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano Bloch will discuss the birth, life, and slow death of L.A.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iconic Olympic Festival freeway murals. His talk is based on in-depth ethnographic research conducted on the graffiti community and historical research conducted on L.A.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chicano and mainstream muralist traditions. Bloch argues that two decades of bad policy, belligerent graffiti abatement, and combative freeway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}