The mural on the side of the Watts Towers Arts Center Campus building is small and seemingly simple at first glance, charmingly childlike. Brightly colored abstract shapes and symbols include ...

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 ...

The Watts Towers are comprised of several major structures embellished with thousands of pieces of glass and porcelain shards, tile and shells. I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions, but I ...

(CBS News) In Los Angeles, the Watts section is known for showing a community at its worst and its best. It's also where two giant spires known as the Watts Towers have withstood the test of time ...

Watts Towers — and the one who built it — the subject of San Pedro film screening The Watts Towers built by artist Simon Rodia in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.

The Watts Towers rise in Los Angeles like a strange evocation of Gaudi’s monumental art nouveau church, the Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona. And to some Angelenos, they are just as sacred — even ...

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 ...

The Watts Towers are considered 'at risk' -- in desperate need of restoration. We take a closer look at the art and science of saving the iconic sculptures.

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 ...

Watts Towers — and the one who built it — the subject of San Pedro film screening The Watts Towers built by artist Simon Rodia in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.

The Watts Towers gained a bit of national recognition this week, but not for a happy reason: The outdoor sculpture composed of salvaged steel, seashells, tile, glass, wire mesh, and concrete by ...

It took Italian immigrant Simon “Sam” Rodia more than 25 years to build the Watts Towers, starting work on the massive, one-of-a-kind structure in 1921. The city later protested. Rodia had no ...