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[15] [16] [17] The museum would lease the land from the Chicago Park District for $1 a year. [18] Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti also made a bid to host the project, offering Lucas land in Exposition Park adjacent to the University of Southern California. [2] Lucas, however, looked to Chicago as the location to build his museum.
The exhibition was organized by the New Museum, and it was a new commission by the New Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. [28] Co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts, the MCA presented Luc Tuymans from October 2010 – January 2011. [29]
Smithsonian Museum of American History: Washington, D.C. 2,100,000: 2023 [34] National Air and Space Museum (with Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center) 3,100,000: 2023 [35] National Museum of African American History and Culture: 1,600,000: 2023 [36] Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago: 1,300,000: 2023 [37] Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Los Angeles ...
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing. On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history. [46] The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m 2) addition, designed by Renzo Piano, makes the Art Institute the second-largest museum in the US. [2]
The culture of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse. The greater Los Angeles metro area has several notable art museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the J. Paul Getty Museum on the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and the Hammer Museum.
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 ...
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;