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The MOCA Downtown Los Angeles location is home to almost 5,000 artworks created since 1940, including masterpieces by classic contemporary artists, and inspiring new works by emerging and mid-career artists from Southern California and around the world. The MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art.
Considered one of the first preservationists in Los Angeles, [5] Californio politician Antonio F. Coronel's donations formed the original collection of the museum. [6] NHM opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1913 as The Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association ...
Website. www .lacma .org. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art.
The aqueduct project began in 1905 when the voters of Los Angeles approved a US$1.5 million bond for the 'purchase of lands and water and the inauguration of work on the aqueduct'. On June 12, 1907, a second bond was passed with a budget of US$24.5 million to fund construction. [ 13 ][ 14 ] Construction began in 1908 and was divided into eleven ...
Timothy Potts. Website. www .getty .edu /museum /. The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. [ 1] It is operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust, the world's wealthiest art institution.
Includes Olvera Street, Avila Adobe, Chinese American Museum, Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, Plaza Firehouse Museum, Sepulveda House, changing exhibits in El Pueblo Gallery, Pico House, Hellman/Quon building. Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum. Downtown. Textile.
Greater Los Angeles Area. Historic house. 1929 home decorated with Malibu Potteries tile, tour includes adjoining Malibu Lagoon Museum in the former garage, with exhibits of local history. Adobe de Palomares. Pomona. San Gabriel Valley. Historic house. 1850s adobe ranch home, operated by the Historical Society of Pomona Valley.
History. Gallery Row is based on a proposal by artists Nic Cha Kim and Kjell Hagen, members of the Arts, Aesthetics, and Culture (AAC) Committee of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC). There were only three galleries in the area: Inshallah Gallery on Main Street near 3rd, bank (Lorraine Molina) on Main Street near 4th, and 727 ...