Sponsored message
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
 — 
See All Episodes
Subscribe

Hey, LA listener!

Download our app for the optimal streaming experience

Apple Store logo Google play logo
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
Off-Ramp

A Forefather of Modern Art in Southern California

By Off-Ramp Staff
Published Nov 10, 2007
Karl Benjamin with his "Hard Edge" art. Now, it doesn't look "hard." It looks "cool."
Karl Benjamin with his "Hard Edge" art. Now, it doesn't look "hard." It looks "cool."
(
OCMA/ Carla Rhea Photography
)

About the Show

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

Funding provided by:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Part of the "Hard Edge" school of painters, Benjamin is finally getting his due in the pantheon of Modern Art. "Hard edge" sounds harsher than it is. It just means there's a clean line between the different colored shapes on his canvases.

Credits