Artbound Season 13 Episodes

Episode 1

Love and Rockets: The Great American Comic Book

Wed, Oct 5, 2022

"Love and Rockets" astounded the alternative comic book scene and garnered a world-wide fan-base by pushing the edge of storytelling through graphic art. Comics published by three brothers from Oxnard, California.

Episode 2

Duchamp Comes to Pasadena

Wed, Oct 12, 2022

Episode 3

Arte Cósmico

Tue, Oct 11, 2022

Episode 4

A New Deal for Los Angeles

Wed, Oct 19, 202256 mins

When FDR created the New Deal, also known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as a way to provide paying jobs to millions of unemployed Americans recovering from The Great Depression, no one imagined how far-reaching its impact would be. From the Aliso Street Bridge to the Virgil Middle School Mural, over 140 projects were completed by the WPA in Los Angeles. The WPA created both infrastructure projects benefiting unskilled laborers as well as arts projects benefiting artists. This episode highlights many of these works still standing and asks the question what would a WPA look like if it still existed today.

Episode 5

Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond

Wed, Oct 26, 2022

Episode 6

A Rubén Ortiz-Torres Story

Wed, Nov 2, 2022

Since the early-80s, artist Rubén Ortiz Torres has been working as a photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker and video producer. Often associated with the development of a Mexican form of postmodernism, Ortiz Torres's life is a collage that explores the social and aesthetic transformations related to cross-cultural exchange and globalization. This episode examines how his past and present informs an uncertain socioeconomic future.