Those are expensive versions of non luxury goods. Middle class people can afford Toyotas, Six Flags, and French’s. Middle class people might not be able to afford Brentwood or whatever but they should be able to afford Boyle Heights.
Arts District to get Sixth Street bridge’s first public art piece: a sculpture of the ‘LA’ fingers
It’s not fair to blame Boyle Heights residents collectively for the stupidity and criminality of the Defend Boyle Heights types. Most Boyle Heights residents are not nutjobs, but just good, ordinary people.
Arts District to get Sixth Street bridge’s first public art piece: a sculpture of the ‘LA’ fingers
The sculpture is part of a new 12 acre park being built in the Art’s District that is part of the gentrification of that area. Boyle Heights has been resisting that type of change. While the subject of the sculpture may be associated with the East Side, the commissioning and placement of the sculpture are very much gentrification.
Arts District to get Sixth Street bridge’s first public art piece: a sculpture of the ‘LA’ fingers
If it won’t be visible nor is it consistent with the culture I don’t even know how it would make sense to place it there. Put it on the Boyle Heights side!
Arts District to get Sixth Street bridge’s first public art piece: a sculpture of the ‘LA’ fingers
"wants it" – that’s a good one, man. Boyle Heights loudmouths and vandals have done everything they can to show hostility to the money and migrants pouring over the LA River. But it doesn’t matter. Abuela Y Abuelo will sell out when they feel like it, just like my Jewish grandparents’ community sold out Boyle Heights to the mostly Mexican migrants who now think it’s their ancestral homeland. Round and round we go.
Arts District to get Sixth Street bridge’s first public art piece: a sculpture of the ‘LA’ fingers
Ohhhh how interesting Boyle Heights wants ART in their neighborhood now??? This is hilarious! Last time I checked they like to vandalize and destroy art related property in BH. Can we hurry up and gentrify that area so they will all have to move somewhere else! Mexicans act like they founded Boyle Heights. It was a jewish and Italian community long before Mexicans claimed it and it was founded by an Irish immigrant!
Arts District to get Sixth Street bridge’s first public art piece: a sculpture of the ‘LA’ fingers
L.A. hands represent… LOSANGELES. Not Boyle Heights, not whitefence, not frogtown,not avenues, etc. It’s for all of us who actually grew up and were raised here. But ask any tourist what neighborhood the hands represent and they won’t say Boyle Heights, they’ll say Los Angeles. I’m curious if Estevan has said where he took the photo back in 95, if it ain’t Boyle heights…
my vote is for the location where the DTLA skyline is the background of the hands when a photo is taken, if that’s the east side cool, if it’s the west, then cool.
Arts District to get Sixth Street bridge’s first public art piece: a sculpture of the ‘LA’ fingers
Gestures cannot be protected. No one really owns it, but we’ll adopt the gangster gesture as the Gateway to Boyle Heights. Not the right message at all.