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Neat article about an artist changing the path of the Los Angeles River

The Art Newspaper:

On the face of it, Lauren Bon’s current art project, like its title, Bending the River, sounds like a Herculean task. The plan is to divert water from the part of the Los Angeles River that runs by downtown and clean it through natural filtration processes before sending it to the nearby Los Angeles State Historic Park for irrigation.

Last October, the project achieved a major milestone

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Bon and her team have had to file around 100 applications with federal, state and local authorities to proceed

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Alex Ross painted Mr. Fantastic getting gnawed on by vampires

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