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East Los Angeles

is awash in public art

Clinton Yates @clintonyates
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    7:00 AMThis week, I took a trip to East Los Angeles to shop for vinyl and, more importantly, found art to look at. I stopped into a little shop called Maintain where they sold art as well as supplies and clothes. There, I talked to the artist on duty who pointed me to a couple different walls around Northeast Los Angles, where its heavy Hispanic population is most certainly active in the art community.

    Here’s a mural on the side of the building, where there’s also a barbershop. If you look closely, you’ll see the name of the store in one of the characters.

    Here’s the backside of a restaurant called La Abeja (The Bee). This is technically not a legal wall, but on the far left (not visible in the photo), the artists did include the name of the restaurant as part of the mural.

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    Here are a couple more shots from around random parking lots and murals, many legal.

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    If you ever get a chance to go, make sure you get out of your car and walk around. There’s plenty to look at.

    Clinton Yates is a tastemaker at Andscape. He likes rap, rock, reggae, R&B and remixes — in that order.