Gallery sights in Los Angeles
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Museum of Contemporary Art
Nearby, the Museum of Contemporary Art offers headline-grabbing special exhibits; its permanent collection presents all the art world's heavy hitters from the 1940s to the present. It's in a building by Arata Isozaki; many consider it his masterpiece. Parking is $8, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. There are two other branches of MoCA: the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo and the MoCA Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
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Geffen Contemporary at Moca
Arty types can pop next door to gawk at the cutting-edge and often provocative exhibits at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
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Italian Hall
A few doors down from the Avila Adobe is the Italian Hall, which sports a rare rooftop mural called América Tropical by David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of Mexico's great early-20th-century muralists. The 1932 work shows a crucified Native American in front of a Mayan pyramid and was so controversial back then that city fathers ordered it whitewashed immediately. The Getty Conservation Institute recently rehabilitated the mural and may possibly build a public viewing platform. Meanwhile, you can see a replica in East LA.
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Self-Help Graphics & Art
The Self-Help Graphics & Art has been nurturing and promoting Latino art for the past three decades. Because of budget troubles, it's rarely open these days but the remaining staff still puts on the Southland's best and largest Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Day) celebration on November 1. The mural on the eastern wall (above Super Taco) is a recreation of David Alfaro Siqueros' controversial América Tropical on Olvera St. Call for opening hours.
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Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Pasadena Museum of California Art is a progressive gallery dedicated to art, architecture and design created by California artists since 1850. Shows change every few months and have included masterpieces by Maynard Dixon, collages by Beatnik artist Jess, and vinyl toys by Gary Basemen, David Gonzales and other artists. Also swing by the Kosmic Kavern, a spray mural by Pop artist Kenny Scharf, in the garage.
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Southern California Institute of Architecture
The Arts District got a nod of respectability when the Southern California Institute of Architecture moved into the former Santa Fe Freight Yard in 2001. It's a progressive laboratory whose faculty and students continually push the envelope in architectural design. You can see some of the results in the gallery or attend a lecture or film screening; call or see the website for upcoming events.
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Lightbox
Gallery-hopping in Culver City is the current must-do, with 30 galleries jostling for space along Washington Blvd and La Cienega Blvd south of the I-10 (Santa Monica Fwy). Lightbox, an artist-friendly enterprise is located here. The first Art Walk drew 1500 people, and the Exposition light-rail line is set to open in 2010. Before you know it, the artists will be gone, looking for the next new thing.
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Brewery Art Complex
The Brewery Art Complex is LA's largest artist colony, housed in a former brewery. There are a few galleries, but studios are generally closed to the public except during the biannual Artwalks (usually in spring and fall; call or check the website for details), though you can wander around to examine the large installations – usually works in progress – scattered throughout.
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Bergamot Station
One of LA’s best-known art nodes, this onetime trolley stop now houses 35 contemporary art galleries, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, a café and plenty of free parking on its 8-acre, campus-style complex. Stop by the museum for cutting-edge exhibits, a map and a look at the orange-tiered shelves of Gracie, an artistically inclined, non-traditional gift shop.
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Blum & Poe
Gallery-hopping in Culver City is the current must-do, with 30 galleries jostling for space along Washington Blvd and La Cienega Blvd south of the I-10 (Santa Monica Fwy). The renaissance began in 2003 when Blum & Poe, with its roster of well-known artists, moved from the comfy confines of Santa Monica to the once-industrial blocks of La Cienega.
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USC Fisher Gallery
Harris Hall at the University Of Southern California is the home of USC Fisher Gallery , which presents changing selections from its ever-expanding collection of American landscapes, British portraits, French Barbizon School paintings and, perhaps surprisingly, Mexican modern masters such as Rufino Tamayo and Gronk (Glugio Nicandro).
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Avenues of Art & Design
Design is big in WeHo, with around 130 trade-only showrooms at the Pacific Design Center alone and dozens more in the surrounding Avenues of Art & Design . PDC showrooms generally sell only to design pros, but sometimes you can get items at a mark-up through the Buying Program.
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Pacific Design Center
Some 130 galleries fill the monolithic 'blue whale' and 'green whale' of the Pacific Design Center, designed by Cesar Pelli (of Malaysia's Petronas Towers fame), though most sales are to the trade only; a 'red whale' was under construction at the time of writing this book.
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LA Louver
Inside the sleek, cool walls of LA Louver, it’s easy to forget the adjacent Venice Beach kookiness. Exhibits in this compact two-story gallery rotate every few months but expect an array of contemporary artists from LA up-and-comers to established international names.
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MOCA Pacific Design Center
Standing a bit forlorn amid the glassy behemoths of the Pacific Design Center is the MOCA Pacific Design Center, a small satellite branch of Downtown's Museum of Contemporary Art. Exhibits usually have an architectural or design theme.
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LAXART
Gallery-hopping in Culver City is the current must-do, with 30 galleries jostling for space along Washington Blvd and La Cienega Blvd south of the I-10 (Santa Monica Fwy). LAXART an artist-friendly enterprise is situated here.
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Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
Little Tokyo's main cultural hub is the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center. The gallery spotlights local artists and there's also a library and a gift shop.
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Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery , part of the Barnsdall Art Park, presents mostly homegrown artists and also sells Hollyhock House tour tickets.
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Williamson Gallery
To see what students and alumni at the Art Center College of Design have been up to, check out the latest exhibit at the Williamson Gallery .
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Museum of Design Art and Architecture
Museum of Design Art and Architecture is a starkly postmodern cube that also contains live-work lofts and an architecture firm.
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