Tonight Metro continues its free art tours, Metro Art Moves, featuring a new fall series in downtown LA and a new starting location: Union Station. The tours pair local artists with docent guides, who share stories about the artworks and lead activities to heighten tour-goer engagement, demystifying the Metro system [continue reading]
This Sunday, when you’re walking, cycling or skating your way through the streets at CicLAvia, enrich your mind, ears and eyeballs with art, special events and activities along the way! The 7.5-mile Heart of L.A. route connects with eight Metro Rail stations, each featuring artwork created specifically for the site. (See map [continue reading]
Metro and Echo Park Film Center will host a free public screening of a classically enthralling Alfred Hitchcock film at historic Union Station on Friday, Sept. 20. Don’t miss the chance to see a visually outstanding work by the brilliant master of suspense in the similarly dramatic setting of Union [continue reading]
As reported last week, a “mocked up” Metro rail vehicle with new styling and graphics designed by Metro Creative Services is rolling through the Blue and Expo Line this week to test its performance. Car 148 left the Blue Line yard on its maiden voyage this afternoon. Have you seen [continue reading]
A major project by renowned Los Angeles artist Doug Aitken will appear next month at Union Station. Described as “a liquid platform for artistic experimentation,” Station to Station: A Nomadic Happening will connect artists, musicians and cultural icons with diverse communities for a series of interventions and site-specific happenings. Over [continue reading]
As previously reported, the Metro Board of Directors recently approved purchasing new light rail vehicles from Kinkisharyo International. Metro’s Creative Services group has since been hard at work creating distinctive styling and graphics for the new rail cars as well as the entire rail fleet. “The forward looking design is [continue reading]
Metro continues its new series of free summer art tours, Metro Art Moves_DTLA, on Thursday, August 1. The tours pair local artists with docent guides, who share stories about the artworks and lead activities to heighten tour-goer engagement, demystifying the Metro system along the way. Meet promptly at 5:30 p.m. [continue reading]
Walter Hood, a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a winner selected to represent the United States at the 2010 Venice Biennale, has been selected to create an integrated sculptural work for the Expo Line Downtown Santa Monica Station. Hood is a professor at the University of California, [continue reading]
Metro, in partnership with Downtown Film Festival L.A., will screen Chinatown at historic Union Station in a free-to-the public program on the evening of Saturday, July 20th. The classic neo-noir film starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway is based on the Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne and directed by Roman [continue reading]
Metro will launch the first in a series of three free summer art tours, Metro Art Moves_DTLA, on Thursday, July 4. The inaugural guided, artist-led tour will end at Grand Park and The Music Center’s 4th of July Block Party event, which will feature live music, food trucks and, for [continue reading]
