Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
4800 Hollywood Blvd
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Art: Group Show
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery: Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Art Center
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Studio Residence B of Frank Lloyd Wright, for Aline Barnsdall, on Her Olive Hill in Hollywood, California (1945), by Edmund Teske. Solarized gelatin silver print 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the Edmund Teske Archives and Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica.
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Opens Thursday Dec 15, 2011 (6–9pm)
Dec 15, 2011 – Feb 12
Thursdays–Sundays (noon–5pm)
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“The paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and other works at this dual-venue exhibition have been chosen to represent the history of two key galleries. It's a different approach, one where the galleries themselves are as much the focus as the artists themselves, all within the larger framework of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, a six-month long ambitious collaboration among dozens of SoCal art institutions. Along with works by Llyn Foulkes and printmaker June Wayne, there are original architectural sketches of the LAMAG building by Frank Lloyd Wright and key McCarthy-era documents from City Hall hearings that charged some modern art as vehicles of communist subversion. Most of us like to imagine art as an organic creature free of the perils of policy-making and budget cuts, but Civic Virtue is a chance to understand how historical politics have driven LA art, and vice-versa.”
Romina Rosenow, Flavorpill
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Also on exhibit at the Watts Towers Art Center.
Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center explores the intertwined histories of two of Los Angeles' oldest and most diverse centers of artistic activity, both now operated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The Civic Virtue exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) is a chronological survey of the role of civic government in the development of the arts in Los Angeles, beginning in the early 1950s.
