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Los Angeles’ Skid Row is widely recognized as the homeless capital of the world where thousands of people are without shelter every night. But what is invisible in this equation are the children of the inner city — 30,000 of them living within a two and a half mile radius of downtown Los Angeles. Given […]

Last night was the Social Media Week Los Angeles opening party at Inner-City Arts. Inner-City Arts generously served as hosts to this party and words can’t quite describe how magical the setting and evening were. See photos from the event below, taken by Social Media Week LA Official Event Photographer Guest of a Guest. The […]

Social Media Week is proud to partner with Inner-City Arts, for over twenty years, an oasis of learning, achievement and creativity for underserved children in the heart of Skid Row. They provide a safe place for kids to express themselves, “to fuel the dreams of children, especially those living in poverty who may believe dreams […]

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Arts Education Branch, together with Inner-City Arts, has been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million U.S. Department of Education Model Development and Dissemination Arts Education grant. The grant is a project of Los Angeles Unified School District working in partnership with Inner-City Arts, a nonprofit organization providing arts learning […]

As the economy puts the skids on McMansions, Dubai towers, and all the projects that might give architects a bad name, Frances Anderton thought it time to correct some misconceptions. “Architects have strong egos, but they also have strong ideals,” said Anderton, host of KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture. In an event co-sponsored by the […]

Today, take a look at these stories from Inner-City Arts, an “oasis of learning, achievement and creativity in the heart of Skid Row, and a vital partner in the work of creating a safer, healthier Los Angeles.” On Big Sunday weekend, dozens of volunteers came together from across the City of Los Angeles for a […]

We’ll need creative thinkers to deal with the challenges of the 21st century. But the arts are being crowded out of our schools by testing and choked off by budget cuts. To help make sure the next generation has the imagination to improve the world, Inner City Arts is giving kids a canvas in Los […]

A few weeks ago, Rocco Landesman, the chairman of theNational Endowment for the Arts, was in the East Room of the White House as President Obama conferred this year’s National Medal of Arts on Jessye Norman, Rita Moreno, Maya Lin and Michael Tilson Thomas, among others. On Monday, the cowboy-booted country music fan and self-described […]

LIKE almost every other American architect who came to prominence in the recent gilded age, Michael Maltzan built his reputation with commissions for prestigious museums and luxurious private houses. In 2002 he garnered national attention for his graceful design for the temporary Museum of Modern Art in Queens. His most recent projects include a flying-saucer-like […]

With Curbed LA’s new look, what better time to take a look at the… past? Here, a round-up of the 10 best new—and rehabbed—buildings of the decade. To compile the list, we asked local architects, media types, Curbed readers, and various other experts for their opinions. We tallied the votes and then cast this list, […]

When choreographer and dance instructor Ines Markeljevic rounded up 62 people in Toronto in 2006 to perform the dance from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, she probably didn’t imagine her humble gathering would spark a worldwide phenomenon. In 2007, Thrill the World included 1,722 dancers in 52 cities on five continents. In 2008, for the first […]

There may still be a month before William Bratton officially departs Los Angeles for the private sector, but the Police Chief’s farewell tour is well underway. On Tuesday afternoon, back-to-back stops at Inner City Arts and Parker Center gave Bratton a chance to speak about what he views as two of his primary accomplishments in […]