This is some guerrilla art we like, and now it's here to stay: The 18-foot fork placed at the fork in the road where St. John and Pasadena avenues meet up in Pasadena has been given the okay to go in the ground for good. more ›

World Sight Day, 24 hours dedicated to raising awareness of blindness and vision impairment as a global public health issue, takes place on Thursday, October 13. TOMS Shoes, having recently unveiled its new One for One eyewear line, is advocating the event via live public art. more ›

Somewhere over the rainbow has been discovered. It's a magical place called Culver City. Dodge the poppies and be mindful of apple-throwing trees as you make your way to Sony Pictures Entertainment where a 94-foot tall sculpture of a rainbow will be installed on the lot, according to the Daily Breeze. more ›

A community may not be able to change its history, but as residents of Highland Park are about to discover, it is possible to clean it up. On Saturday, volunteers will work to restore one of the neighborhood’s most cherished murals, “History of Highland Park,” located on the AT&T building on Avenue 56. more ›

Jon Jackson is moving to New York and he'll miss Los Angeles a lot. Certain streets in particular. So how does a Creative Director say goodbye to LA? With huge billboards, an online tracking campaign and an iPhone wallpaper offering, of course. more ›

It's considered the unofficial gateway to Santa Monica, and now artist Tony DeLap's sculpture "The Big Wave" has been restored, and is lighting up Wilshire Boulevard at Franklin Avenue. Since its installation, the piece suffered from deterioration, including rust and corrosion, and the failure of the original light system, Now, however, using LED lighting, the "Big Wave" is shining once again. more ›

Emblazoned with vibrant, cheery colors and eye-catching patterns, Los Angeles County's lifeguard towers have now been returned to their basic blues, marking an official, albeit calendar-challenged, end to the "Summer of Color." more ›

IndieCade is an annual "international festival of independent games," and their conference was held earlier this month here in Culver City. As part of the festivities, several locations in Downtown Culver City were set up as public games, much like public art installations, including one called "Culverland," which used the sidewalk like a giant game board similar to Candyland. more ›

After months of construction work, the Sunset Strip Beautification Project in West Hollywood has been completed. And to celebrate, a re-grand opening block party was thrown last night. The event also helped introduce a new public art project called GuitarTown, which can be compared to Chicago Cows on Parade or L.A.'s Community of Angels. more ›

In Culver City, the public art is sometimes so omnipresent it blends into the scenery--on purpose. Integrating art into the everyday landscape, while honoring the city's history and giving visitors and residents intriguing--and sometimes interactive--pieces to enjoy is something Culver City takes to heart. To that end, they have designed a free, fun, and accessible way to explore the area and find all the pieces of public art. more ›

Santa Monica will have a new piece of public art come tomorrow morning. "Cradle," a permanent artwork measuring 39 ft. wide and 36 ft. high, will be installed on the east wall of the city's Parking Structure 7 on 4th Street between Broadway and Colorado. more ›

Of 300 submissions, Americans for the Arts has announced their picks in their 2010 Public Art Year in Review, naming the 40 best public art works in the U.S. and Canada, of which five are in California. more ›

With thousands of volunteers working over several weekends, three of the Portraits of Hope Lifeguard Towers are scheduled to be revealed this Wednesday morning in Santa Monica. more ›

Going up and down the coast is already a different visual experience, thanks to volunteers who took to the beaches yesterday to begin painting all 158 lifeguard towers in L.A. County for the "Summer of Color" public art project. You'll see five colors: yellow, rumba orange, sweat pea, Toronto blue, and crocus petal purple. This is just the first step--by mid-May, color murals painted by children and volunteers across the region will be installed and stay up through October. more ›

Starting Sunday and lasting through October, the region's biggest public art project will begin to take shape. By Mid-May "Summer of Color" will have turned 158 lifeguard towers on 31 miles of California coast into vibrant floral pieces of public art. On Sunday, volunteers will paint tower railings with one of five colors: yellow, rumba orange, sweat pea, Toronto blue, and crocus petal purple. If you want to volunteer, sign up here. more ›

Located at 3200-3300 E. Olympic Blvd. in Boyle Heights, The Estrada Courts is a low-income housing project known for its colorful murals depicting the Chicano experience. The housing was built in the early 1940s in response to the housing crisis in Southern California that took place due to the boom in World War II-era industry work, "followed by the return of servicemen to the region and the Bracero program," according to Wikipedia. more ›

Last month we told you about "Summer of Color," a massive project that will turn 155 lifeguard towers on 30 miles of California coast into vibrant floral pieces of public art. Bringing together volunteers from the community, the Project of Hope is working every Saturday from now until May to paint the panels that will then be affixed onto the lifeguard towers. more ›

Remember last year when Toyota partnered with advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi to make low quality looking floralscapes along various local freeways? They're ads for the Prius line without specifically being an ad. Well, it looks like this week some guerilla artists took it upon themselves to advertise Toyota's current recall and controversy over mechanical failures, which led to some deadly consequences. more ›

Remember when taxis all over New York City were covered in flower paintings as one massively big mobile public art project? The same non profit that organized it is now working on one for Los Angeles, but with the goal of bringing public art to every lifeguard tower in Los Angeles County, which equates to 155 of them along some 30 miles of coast. more ›

The shuttered Gordon Biersch at One Colorado in Pasadena tonight will become a canvas to a sloshing rising tide. Other storefront windows and doors in the shopping mall and along Fair Oaks Avenue will become screens for jellyfish swimming in trashed waters and other images inspired by this quote: "Don't blow it, a good planet is hard to find." more ›

Billboard, no doubht, are a controversial issue in Los Angeles. Lawsuits against the city are piled up in the courts, ordinances are being passed and new digital billboards and supergraphics envelope the city. So it's only appropriate that the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House are taking 23 billboards and 23 artists for a large-scale art project up and down the city's corridors. more ›

Oops. After a Pasadena code enforcement officer visited a store with a large city-funded mural on one of its walls, apparent miscommunication led to the new mural to be pained over by the owners. Artist Christian Alderete said it felt like a kick in the face, but suspects the action wasn't with malcontent and would paint it again. Code enforcement has asked the business for various fixes, including repainting a wall. more ›

Our favorite recent piece of guerilla public art--that giant fork placed, well, at a fork in the road--will be the site of a food drive this weekend, says the LA Times. Benefitting the Union Station Homeless Services, volunteers will collect nonperishable food at the fork, located at Pasadena and St. John avenues, both days this weekend, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sculpture was a birthday present/prank for Bob Stane, founder of the Ice House comedy club and current owner of the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena. Stane always thought it would be funny if someone did that and his wish was granted by his friends. Now people want to see the piece be a permanent part of the city's public art collection. more ›

lad in Caltrans uniforms a few nights ago, a group of people installed a 12-foot wooden carved fork where Pasadena Avenueu splits at, well, a fork in the road, with St. John Avenue (see a map here). Who did this awesome piece of art and why? "It turns out the fork is an elaborate - and expensive - birthday prank in honor of the 75th birthday of Bob Stane, founder of the Ice House comedy club, who now owns the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena," reports the Pasadena Star News. And the group would like to see it stay there permanently, but that will be up to the Caltrans, which owns the small parcel of land and the city. more ›

Earlier this month the Wende Musuem installed 8 segments of the Berlin Wall in front of LACMA on Wilshire Blvd. This marks the longest stretch of the wall currently standing outside of Berlin. On November 8th, the 20th anniversary of the wall's falling will be commemorated via an event put on by the Wall Project, and more panels will be added to fully block Wilshire Blvd. Following an evening of activities and entertainment, at midnight the wall will be toppled, marking the anniversary, which will be broadcast live on German television. more ›

The new abstract public art at the Police Administration Building in downtown is garnering some nice discussion and attention, as all good art should. Artist Peter Shelton tells blogdowntown that the six "beasts of burden" should have viewers making up their own stories as to what they are. more ›

If there was a weekend where you wanted to check out art, this is it. No, it's not a coordinated event or festival, it's just good timing. This happens every year as the art season is very much like back to school. Everyone has been gone for a month or two so it just happens that all the fall shows open the same time. "This weekend people are driving cross town to see as much as possible," explained Bettina Korek, Founder of ForYourArt, which lists the best of best for the weekend on its website. more ›

Tonight is the official unveiling of Peter Shire's latest public work of art. Over in the NoHo Arts Distrct, a gateway on Lankershim has been erected at Huston will welcome people to the neighborhood just like the arch in Chinatown and The Wave on Wilshire at the LA-Santa Monica border. LAist wrote about this project last week and readers in the comments section have not been thrilled. A ceremony is scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m. more ›