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Artbound Season 13 Episodes
Season 13 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2022 - 2022
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
When Marcel Duchamp came to Pasadena in 1963, he sent ripples down L.A.'s art scene.
Episode 3
Arte Cósmico
Tue, Oct 11, 2022
Latinx artists have been taking center stage at international art fairs, high-end art galleries, and established museums. "Arte Cósmico" follows noted artists rafa esparza, Beatriz Cortez, Patrick Martinez, Guadalupe Rosales, Gabriella Sanchez and Gabriela Ruiz working in Los Angeles, exploring notions of identity, language, immigration, queerness, religious and Aztec iconography, and capitalism.
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
Giant Robot was a bimonthly magazine that created an appetite for Asian and Asian American pop culture, exploring Sawtelle Boulevard as a Japanese American enclave. Founded in 1994 and driven by Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong, it resulted in a legacy of Asian American artists that achieved worldwide recognition such as David Choe and James Jean.
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.
