Watts Towers Art Center
1727-1765 East 107th Street
213.202.5500
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Art: Group Show
Watts Towers Art Center: Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Art Center
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Nuestro Pueblo (Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts) (1966) Photo by Simon Rodia, courtesy Herald-Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
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Opens Saturday Dec 17, 2011 (1–4:30pm)
Dec 17, 2011 – Feb 12
Wednesdays–Saturdays (10am–4pm)
Sundays (noon–4pm)
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“Instead of artwork being isolated within a vacuum of the creative minds being represented, 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 being shown, all within the larger framework of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, a six-month long ambitious collaboration among dozens of So-Cal art institutions to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. This means that along with works by Llyn Foulkes and printmaker June Wayne, there will be 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 policymaking and budget cuts, but Civic Virtue is a chance to understand how historical politics have driven L.A. art, as well as the reverse.”
Romina Rosenow, Flavorpill
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Also on exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
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.
