The Watts Towers aren't officially open for their centennial, having been closed for restoration since 2017. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) A hundred years ago, in what was then the semi-rural ...

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the Watts Towers of Los Angeles are endangered. The city, facing budget shortfalls, has cut the three workers assigned to maintain the towers, which, at ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- One of the most unique artworks in the world soars into a bright blue sky in a neighborhood most Southern Californians never venture into. The Watts Towers draw visitors from ...

4/9/10 UPDATE: LACMA and Watts Towers are talking about a partnership to help maintain and curate the Towers. Here's the piece we ran in October... This weekend, they're commemorating the moment fifty ...

For more than 30 years, a man who stood scarcely five feet tall built a kind of skyscraper in his back yard. The Watts Towers is a soaring cluster of edifices, a supreme example of outsider art. The ...

The Watts Towers are one of LA’s most famous landmarks. The sculptures were handmade by an Italian immigrant, Simon Rodia, from 1921 until 1954. He worked by day at a tile-making factory in Malibu.

If a Los Angeles group backed by Tony Hawk has its way, young skaters will soon be kick-flipping and airwalking in the shadows of Watts Towers, a cultural landmark located in an emerging but still ...

Introduction: Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts and the search for common ground / Luisa Del Giudice -- Part I: Situating Sabato Rodia and the Watts Towers : art movements, cultural contexts, and ...

Thirteen miles from the coast, marine biologist Bruno Pernet found himself surrounded by concrete, asphalt and an assortment of roughly 10,000 seashells. There were the iridescent shells of black ...

A simple fact -- the Watts Towers were the creation of Italian architect Simon Rodia, built over the course of three decades and finished 10 years before the Watts riots -- belongs somewhere in Roger ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is interested in stepping into the breach as curator and conservator of the Watts Towers starting this summer as a severe budget crisis saps the city of Los ...