New PMCA exhibit: Explore the LA River without getting your feet wet.

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May 22, 2010

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New PMCA exhibit: Explore the LA River without getting your feet wet.

The concrete, channelized Los Angeles River has inspired rallies to clean it up, naturalize it, and improve it. An exhibit at the Pasadena Museum of California Art makes a different argument ... for beauty in the graffiti, debris, and nature, that already thrive there. KPCC's Molly Peterson talked with the curators. One piece, above, is made of Plexglas and fish. The river exhibit,The Ulysses Guide to the LA River, is up through July 3.

The concrete, channelized Los Angeles River has inspired rallies to clean it up, naturalize it, and improve it. An exhibit at the Pasadena Museum of California Art makes a different argument ... for beauty in the graffiti, debris, and nature, that already thrive there. KPCC's Molly Peterson talked with the curators. One piece, above, is made of Plexglas and fish.
The river exhibit,The Ulysses Guide to the LA River, is up through July 3.

The river exhibit,The Ulysses Guide to the LA River, is up through July 3.