Media – Current LA Water

Announcements

12/07/2016	CURRENT:LA Artist Projects and Calendar of Events Public spaces around Los Angeles will be transformed by site-specific contemporary art and programming during CURRENT:LA Water Public Art Biennial from July 16 to August 14, 2016.
22/06/2016	CURRENT:LA Public Programs Press Release City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs announces Public Program Partners for CURRENT:LA WATER
31/05/2016	CURRENT:LA Sites and Partners Press Release City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs announces Sites, Government and Community Support, and Project Team for CURRENT:LA WATER.

12/04/2016	CURRENT:LA Press Conference and Artist Announcement On April 12, Mayor Eric Garcetti introduced the team of artists, curators, funders, and city officials behind CURRENT:LA Water at a press conference at Marsh Park in the Elysian Valley!
23/06/2015	CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial Awarded Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge The City of Los Angeles was announced as one of four cities awarded $1Million through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge for the CURRENT: LA Public Art Biennial
12/03/2015	CURRENT:LA Public Art Challenge Finalist Announcement Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Los Angeles as one of 12 Finalist Cities in the running to receive up to $1 Million in funding as part of its first-ever Public Art Challenge.

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Articles

08/11/2016	KPCC, “Chris Kallmyer explores LA’s water relationship through art”
08/10/2016	All Things Considered (KCRW), “The Streets are Alive with Public Art”
08/08/2016	The Creator’s Project, “Artist Duo Project Videos on the Banks of the LA River”

08/03/2016	Artillery Magazine, “The L.A. River: Mel Chin Models a Drought Resistant California / Current LA:Water”
08/03/2016	CityLab, “A New Public Art Installation, UnderLA, Projects Images of 1,400 Feet of the Soil Under Los Angeles to Show the Effects of Climate Change on Groundwater Supply”
08/02/2016	Los Angeles Times, “Current LA’s “La Sombra” breathes life into concrete in the face of death”
08/01/2016	Smithsonian.com, “SMARTNEWS Keeping you current / A New Installation Turns the L.A. River Into Art”
07/28/2016	KCET Artbound, “Making a Splash: 11 Artists Who Have Used Water as a Medium”
07/27/2016	Argonaut ONLINE, “The Call of the Wild – UCLA’s ArtlSci Center teaches the language of birds at Del Rey Lagoon”
07/27/2016	Los Angeles Times, “Politics of water’: Michael Parker’s symbolic Current LA installation”
07/27/2016	Los Angeles Times, “Current LA: Colonial mast meets functional art”
07/26/2016	Arch Daily, “wHY and artist Rirkrit Tiravanija Design “Waterfall Pavilion” for the LA Public Art Biennial”
07/26/2016	FastCo. Exist, “The L.A. River Is Now A Temporary Art Museum”
07/25/2016	Los Angeles Times, “An artist’s imposing new monument at Echo Park Lake honors Angelenos killed in violent crimes [Updated]”
07/23/2016	NBC4 Los Angeles, “Is It Art? Residents Question New Los Angeles Outdoor Sculpture”
07/22/2016	Los Angeles Times, “An artist’s imposing new monument at Echo Park Lake honors Angelenos killed in violent crimes [Initial Run]”
07/22/2016	Los Angeles Magazine, “This Public Sculpture Is Inspired by 100 Recent Murders in L.A.”
07/21/2016	Quartz, “A memorial to victims of gun crime has been made with residue from the concrete streets where they died”
07/21/2016	LA Times, “Why Mel Chin is giving away the land art design of his subversively charming Current: LA native garden”
07/21/2016	KPCC (Online and radio broadcast on ‘Morning Edition’ and ‘The Frame’), “LA's new public art biennial wants to change the way you think about water”
07/20/2016	The Art Newspaper, “Teresa Margolles builds monument to 100 people who died in the streets of Los Angeles Imposing concrete shelter in Echo Park incorporates debris and residue gathered at homicide scenes”
07/20/2016	Artillery Magazine, “CURRENT: LA BRINGS ART TO THE VALLEY IN THE FORM OF TEA”
07/19/2016	The Argonaut, “CURRENT:LA Water”
07/16/2016	KCET Artbound, “A Guide to CURRENT:LA Water, the Biennial Bringing Art to 16 Locations Across the City”
07/15/2016	KPCC ‘Take Two’, “New art event aims to help Angelenos think about water differently”
07/15/2016	KCET Artbound, “A Guide to Current:LA Water, the Biennial Bringing Art to 16 Locations Across the City”
07/15/2016	CurbedLA, “Here’s Where to Find LA’s Public Art Biennial This Summer”
07/14/2016	TimeOutLA, “Things to do this weekend in Los Angeles: July 15-17”
07/14/2016	KCET Artbound, “Big (Beautiful) Data: The Media Architecture of Refik Anadol”
07/12/2016	Hyperallergic, “ArtRxLA”
07/12/2016	art ltd., “REPORT: Los Angeles”
07/12/2016	Los Angeles Daily News, “LA Launches CURRENT:LA Water, its First Citywide Public Arts Biennial”
07/12/2016	New York Times, “Current: L.A. Brings New Art Projects to the City”
07/12/2016	The Culture List, “CURRENT:LA Water Drizzles Art Throughout LA”
07/11/2016	LA Weekly, “A New Project Lets Viewers Explore All 51 Miles of the L.A. River in 51 Minutes”
07/11/2016	KCRW - DnA, “5 Design Things To Do This Week”
07/08/2016	Paper, “9 Can't-miss LA Art Shows This Summer”
06/20/2016	TimeOutLA, “Mayor Garcetti is Doing an Instagram Takeover - Right now”
06/13/2016	Out.com, “Must-See: Los Angeles Launched City-Wide Exhibits on Water”
05/31/2016	CurbedLA, “Here's Where the LA River's Public Art Biennial Will Be This Summer”
04/29/2016	KCET Artbound, “Current:LA, A New Public Art Biennial”
04/13/2016	CurbedLA, “Meet the Artists of the LA River Biennial Show”
04/12/2016	ABC7, “Los Angeles to Host 1st Public Art Biennial at LA River”
04/12/2016	Los Angeles Times, “Mayor Eric Garcetti announces artists for L.A.'s first public art biennial to be held this summer”
04/12/2016	LA Weekly, “Come July, the L.A. River Will Become a Public Art Museum”
06/23/2015	KPCC, “LA among cities to receive $1M Bloomberg public arts grants”
06/23/2015	CurbedLA, “Los Angeles is Getting a Big Public Art Biennial on the LA River”
06/23/2015	New York Times, “Bloomberg Names Winners of Public Art Grants”
03/24/2015	KCET, “L.A. River a Finalist for $1M Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Project”