This Sunday, December 9, the Los Angeles Times finally featured a story on Culver CIty's Branded Arts Building and its curator Warren Brand. The story reviewed many of the details that will be familiar to regular readers of the Culver City Times over the last two years -- highlighting artists Herakut, Rime, Dabs Myla, Miss Van, and Andrew Hem. (And, what, no love for David Flores?). You can read my interview with Brand HERE.

Still, it was gratifying to see this great story featured in the LA Times, and author Corina Knoll did a good job of highlighting the melancholy fact that the murals will be torn down for the construction of new retail space early in 2013:

"It's actually one of my perks," said David Batiste, 40, an audio engineer who lives in Venice and works in Burbank. "I love that kid on the skateboard. It's the look in the eyes. It's an amazing landmark.... I want that art to stay."

Most at peace with the notion of the art disappearing seem to be the artists themselves.

"I knew from the start it wouldn't be permanent," said Yoskay Yamamoto, who spent a week blanketing a wall with a man emerging from water under a starry night. "Usually I work on a painting for like two weeks, then I have a gallery show where I end up selling it.

"I'm used to having this relationship of creating work and letting it go."