What’s up in Los Angeles
Museum movement
L.A.’s contemporary art scene looks bright with a gaggle of galleries opening in the coming months.
Marciano Art Foundation The Main Museum
ART MUSEUMS ARE having a bit of a boom in L.A. right now. It’s been just over a year since the Broad opened Downtown, and by the time its second birthday rolls around, it’ll be just one among a whole crop of new contemporary art spaces in town. Here are the places you’ll be perusing in the near future.
Marciano Art Foundation Brothers Maurice and Paul
Marciano made their fortune with the Guess clothing company, and now they’re throwing some of that moolah into this project, converting a former Masonic temple into a
home for their top-notch private art collection. The historic space will be stocked with works by Cindy Sherman, Yves Klein and Doug Aitken, among others, including many pieces never publicly displayed before. à 4357 Wilshire Blvd (marcianoart
foundation.org). Opening spring.
The Main Museum Once fully completed, this
massive compound in the Historic Core will include a gallery space, live-work studios, an amphitheater and destination-worthy restaurants. That undertaking likely won’t be finished until 2018, but in the meantime, one portion has opened under the moniker Beta Main. Visitors can get a peek at the museum to come, with rotating exhibits, artist residencies and live performances.
à 114 W 4th St (213-986-8500, themain
museum.org). Beta Main now open, check website for hours.
The Institute of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles ICA LA is a brand-new museum from members of the team behind the now-closed Santa Monica Museum of Art, with a new name and new Arts District
location. The Institute will hold no permanent collection and will create each show from scratch, based entirely on loans brought in from other museums, allowing the ICA to stay nimble enough to showcase art’s next big thing before anyone else does. à 1717 E 7th St (310-284-8100,
theicala.org). Opening Sept. ■ Brittany Martin
The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
WORTH THE DRIVE EPacific Palisades à Watts
ames Demetrios Director of Eames Office and artist with Kcymaerxthaere
“There are so many beautiful details that Simon Rodia included when he created the Watts Towers. He worked on them for decades, but when he finished, he handed the key to his neighbor and never came back. It was all about the process. Incredibly Zen.”
à Watts Towers, 1727 E 107th St (213-874-4646,
wattstowers.org) Time Out Los Angeles January–March 2017 6
PHOTOGRAPHS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT): TOM WISCOMBE; COURTESY INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES/WHY; PHILIP COSORES; COURTESY MARCIANO ART FOUNDATION
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