Los Angeles Times Author: Scott Timberg, Special To The Los Angeles Times Article Mentions
Author, Scott Timberg, Special To The Los Angeles TimesMentioned, John Baldessari Mentioned, Ed Ruscha Mentioned, Maurice Tuchman Mentioned, Irving Blum Mentioned, Dennis Hopper Mentioned, David Hockney Mentioned, Virginia Dwan Mentioned, Bruce Nauman Mentioned, Andy Warhol Mentioned, Craig Kauffman Mentioned, Ed Kienholz Mentioned, Molly Barnes Mentioned, Billy Al Bengston Mentioned, Peter Plagens Mentioned, LACMA Mentioned, Bentley Mentioned, Art In America Mentioned, The Museum of Contemporary Art
It's hard to imagine now. But one fact about the early years of the post-World War II art scene in Los Angeles that has been brought into focus by the Pacific Standard Time initiative is that there was no real art museum in what was becoming the nation's second largest city. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art did not exist as a separate entity until it opened on Wilshire Boulevard in 1965. The Museum of Contemporary Art's Grand Avenue location was years away. Much of the energy, then, in the city's art scene in the 1945 to 1980 stretch came from private collectors, artists' collectives, print shops, art schools and especially from commercial galleries. A handful are talked about with the most conviction. "When you look back at a mountain ...(read more)
... It's hard to imagine now. But one fact about the early years of the post-World War II art scene in Los Angeles that has been brought into focus by the Pacific Standard Time initiative is that there was no real art museum in what was becoming the nati ...
... David Stuart represented Dennis Hopper. Two of the period's other key galleries were despite the machismo of much of the art scene run by women. Ferus' chief rival was Virginia Dwan, heiress to a founder of the Minnesota-based conglomerate 3M, who ...
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