{"id":2555,"date":"2024-01-01T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T01:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roski.usc.edu\/?page_id=2555"},"modified":"2024-10-24T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T23:21:27","slug":"the-l-a-arts-scene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roski.usc.edu\/the-l-a-arts-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Art Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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New York City used to be the art and design capital of the U.S. Today, Los Angeles is vying for that position. An exponential growth of the L.A. arts scene in the past decade has seen NYC mega-galleries and art fairs setting up shop here, and the contemporary art museums are thriving. What sets L.A.\u2019s scene apart is the artist-run apartment galleries and storefront outposts\u2014priced out in NYC\u2014and the space that this city allows for serious fun.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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L.A.\u2019s Gallery Neighborhoods<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Los Angeles gallery route is also an L.A. tour and a real-estate road rally\u2014dealers are constantly trying to outrun the city\u2019s rising rents. These are just a few of the ever-evolving gallery clusters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Arts District<\/b>: This once-industrial Downtown area wasn\u2019t always an art-crowd draw, but over nearly a decade, it\u2019s taken center stage with a reputation for exposing emerging artists, designers and design firms, as well as showcasing work by art stars. Venues you\u2019ll want to hit include the museumesque Hauser & Wirth, where you can also grab lunch and check out the chicken run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Culver City Arts District<\/b>: In this compact corridor, galleries sit shoulder-to-shoulder along with artist studios and design practices. Blum & Poe first opened here in 2003, and others followed. The district’s Art in Public Places program has populated the streetscape with dozens of works.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinatown<\/b>: Find Chung King Road and, in the lantern-festooned alley\u2019s small storefronts, you can take in nonprofit and artist-run galleries, including several dedicated to social practice and politically resonant work, along with some art-meets-literary spaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WeHo Design District: <\/b>Marked by outdoor murals, the West Hollywood Design District is roughly bordered by Melrose Avenue and Robertson and Beverly Boulevards. The blue-chip Regen Projects gallery represents Matthew Barney, Catherine Opie and Marilyn Minter. At the eye-popping Pacific Design Center, you can walk 1.6 million square feet of interior treasures and view exhibitions at designLAb.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Museums<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Los Angeles\u2019s art museums are world-class and rival those in New York, Chicago and D.C. Several of the buildings they\u2019re housed in are exciting works of architecture in themselves. Here are a few of the city\u2019s most significant.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art\u2019s collection includes more than 140,000 works from around the world stretching back 6,000 years. Full of history but never stale, the exhibitions are experimental in spirit and as inclusive as the city itself.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n

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The Museum of Contemporary Art occupies two Downtown buildings, the main on Grand Avenue and a nearby Little Tokyo annex in a Frank Gehry-renovated old police-car warehouse. MOCA\u2019s extensive permanent collection focuses on 20th- and 21st\u2013century work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n

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A stunning collection of Medieval through contemporary art and breathtaking views over downtown L.A. can only be outdone by the Getty\u2019s 134,000-square-foot living art work: Robert Irwin’s gardens. Admission is free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n

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This Downtown museum founded by collectors Eli and Edythe Broad and housed in a Diller Scofidio + Renfro building has a 2,000-piece collection representing influential artists from the 1950s to the present\u2014including a well trafficked Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room. Admission is free.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n

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Once a shed for a petroleum magnate\u2019s Old Masters, an overhaul turned the Hammer into a contemporary museum whose Made in L.A. show is a much-anticipated biennial. The \u00fcbermodern Westwood Village complex\u2019s collection includes a wealth of works on paper, plus painting, sculpture and media arts. Admission is free.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n

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