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The Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (KCCLA) is an annex of the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles [1] and is operated by the South Korean government's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. [2] KCCLA's mission is to broaden Korea-U.S. relations through cultural and educational activities.
Due to the popularity of the Temporary Contemporary and extraordinary suitability of the building for exhibiting contemporary art, the museum's board requested that the City of Los Angeles extend MOCA's lease on the facility for 50 years, until 2038. That request was granted in early 1986, and in 1996 the city extended the lease even further.
The museum was founded as the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 1984 by Abby Sher as part of the Frank Gehry-designed mixed-use center, Edgemar, which she developed on Main Street in Santa Monica, California between 1984 and 1988. In 1988, Thomas Rhoads was named the museum’s director, mounting that summer its first exhibition, Art in the Raw in ...
Greater Los Angeles Area: Art: Part of Pepperdine University, works from the collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation: Gallery 825: West Hollywood: Westside: Art: Operated by the Los Angeles Art Association: Gamble House: Pasadena: San Gabriel Valley: Historic house: 1908 Craftsman-style house George Westmore Research Library ...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Louis Stern Fine Arts; La Luz de Jesus; M. MAMA Gallery;
Craft Contemporary, formerly the Craft and Folk Art Museum, is a non-profit, non-collecting arts museum dedicated to showcasing contemporary craft in Los Angeles, California. The museum is located on Los Angeles' Museum Row on Wilshire Boulevard, and across from the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits. It is the only institution on the ...
The museum received backlash for its name-sake following the Kleefeld's donation of $10 million. Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight wrote: "A permanent chunk of a public university’s tax-subsidized museum facility and artistic program has been effectively privatized to advance the personal interests of a wealthy patron." [20]
Contemporary art museums around the world specialize in collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. The following is an alphabetical listing of major contemporary art museums , divided by country. A number of such museums are named Museum of Contemporary Art .