Arts District (Downtown LA)
Los Angeles, United States
The Arts District is downtown LA's most creative neighbourhood — a former industrial zone of warehouses, factories, and railroad buildings east of Little Tokyo that has been converted into galleries, restaurants, breweries, and the kind of creative-class real estate that every American city's urban planners aspire to but few achieve as organically as LA.
Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049
The Getty Center is one of the greatest art museums in the world — a billion-dollar campus of Italian travertine buildings designed by Richard Meier on a hilltop above the 405 freeway that houses the Getty collection of European paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography in a setting that uses the Southern California landscape as an integral part of the museum experience.
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, 90036, United States
LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States — a multi-building campus on Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile that houses 150,000 works spanning 6,000 years, from ancient Assyrian reliefs to contemporary installations.
The Broad
221 S Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Broad is LA's most popular contemporary art museum — a honeycomb-like building on Grand Avenue in downtown designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro that houses the Eli and Edythe Broad collection of 2,000 works of postwar and contemporary art, including signature pieces by Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, and Yayoi Kusama.
The Getty Villa
17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
The Getty Villa is a recreation of a Roman luxury villa — the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD — built on the Malibu coastline by J.
The Huntington Library & Gardens
1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, 91108, United States
The Huntington is one of the greatest cultural institutions in California — a 120-acre estate in San Marino that combines a world-class research library (housing a Gutenberg Bible, a Shakespeare First Folio, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales manuscript), an art collection (Gainsborough's 'Blue Boy' and Lawrence's 'Pinkie'), and 16 themed botanical gardens that together create a day-long experience unlike anything else in Southern California.
Watts Towers
1727 E 107th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90002
The Watts Towers are one of the most extraordinary works of outsider art in the world — 17 interconnected structures of steel, mortar, and found objects (broken pottery, glass bottles, seashells, ceramic tiles) built single-handedly over 33 years (1921-1954) by Sabato 'Simon' Rodia, an Italian immigrant construction worker who built the towers in his backyard without engineering training, scaffolding, or help from anyone.
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