The Watts Towers are one of three sites in California to recently be listed as "at risk" by The Cultural Landscape Foundation. "It's at risk because of the environment that it's in," says Preusser.

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 ...

Muralist, teacher and activist Michael Massenburg, 62, top, with Patrick Taylor, 29, left, and Allyson Dixon-Duarte, 20, restore the John Outterbridge mural at the Watts Towers Arts Center Campus.

1. "Flashing Spires Built as Hobby. One constructed by Watts Resident rises to Height of 100 Feet." — Headline of the first Times story about the towers on Oct. 13, 1937.

While the Watts Towers park itself is well-maintained and frequented by neighbors,the land in question for the park, adjacent to the Towers, is oftencovered in trash and unused by local residents ...

The towers had been saved from destruction by a band of private citizens who came together to form the Committee for Simon Rodia’s Towers in Watts, which, among other activities, offered art ...

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.

As the battle rages over a planned Watts Towers-adjacent skate park, the city's also working on a nearby project that'll hook the Towers up more directly to the Blue Line, which stops nearby on E ...

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.

The Watts Towers rise above homes in the South Central Los Angeles community of Watts. The hand-sculpted structures were built by Simon Rodia between 1921-1954. Before You Go ...

Scholars, activists and artists who are gathering Friday afternoon for the start of the three-day Watts Towers Common Ground Conference at UCLA and in Watts will arrive to some good news: After a ...

The Watts Towers Art Center described the structure as “a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the ...