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Originally Posted by kelbeen
They're slowly poking out holes on the Broad facade, lol! They're working on the top row and right column
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architects always take artistic license when it comes to the artwork of their projs, but the designers of the broad seemed to really allow the illustrators....or computer graphics ppl.....to exaggerate the look of the museum's exterior. They made the facade of the museum look much lighter, transparent & more textured than it has turned out. But if it were just a set of 4 flat, plain walls, & just plain concrete....as some major contempo art museums over the past 10 yrs have been....that wouldn't have been very good at all. whatever the exterior, the interior looks like it will be a good space for exhibitions.....
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Our museum's second floor conference room gives visitors
an inside-looking-outward view of the building's veil:
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Los Angeles: City of Art
The city’s art scene is growing at a steady and sustainable pace, which for the laid-back local artists and galleries is a nice break from New York’s aggressive market
By Maura Egan
Dec. 4, 2014
“NEW YORK CITY IS 0 TO 100,” explains Hannah Hoffman, perched on a long communal table at her Hollywood art gallery. “There’s no middle ground. Here in Los Angeles, it’s a little bit of a free-for-all.” Hoffman had been working at Gavin Brown ’s Enterprise in New York when she pulled up stakes two years ago and decided to head west. She didn’t have any real plans to open a gallery; she was just trying to figure out how to live an easier life. But once she arrived, the idea didn’t seem like such a lofty ambition. “There was no standard, no structure,” she says, “sort of like the strange zoning here.”
Hoffman found her space on a quiet strip in the Highland Avenue neighborhood. Once the domain of prostitutes and junkies, the area was being colonized by artisanal restaurants and designer boutiques. Regen Projects, one of L.A.’s blue-chip stalwarts, had settled into a 20,000-square-foot space around the corner. About the same time, Hoffman met Erin Falls, another New York transplant, who had worked at Deitch Projects and Mary Boone Gallery. Falls, who is married to the artist Sam Falls—he is on the gallery’s roster—became Hoffman’s director. “It’s much smaller here,” Hoffman says, “and there’s not as much outside affirmation, so you can do your own thing.”
While the New York art world’s rapid-fire pace and go-go market attitude can quickly tamp down an artist’s creativity, L.A.’s laid-back vibe lets artists breathe a little more easily. The rents are cheaper, the spaces are bigger and there’s a close-knit community.
In fact, Los Angeles seems to be having a New York moment. But as much as the L.A. arts community seems excited by the current spotlight on its city, it’s also a bit nervous. Artists universally shrink from comparisons to New York—and not because they harbor an inferiority complex. Rather, L.A. is their well-guarded secret—and they’re worried it could be ruined.
The L.A. scene is founded on art-school intellectualism and a vigorous discipline—which may seem ironic given that the general perception of the city’s culture is that it’s all about surface. “There are young artists in New York who are selling paintings for six figures, and I don’t think most of the work would have made it through any of the grad programs out here,” Gavlak says.
“People move to New York to become artists with a capital A. Not here,” says Sam Falls. Sure, there is an art market, and there are openings and power players, but there is a welcoming, communal vibe to it all. “I see making my art as almost a blue-collar job. There’s a simplicity to being an artist here,” says Falls. In fact, he and Erin have punched the clock and are about to hit the beach. “It’s one of the best things about living here,” says Erin. Sam looks a little protective of their creative paradise as he says goodbye. “Things are happening here, but I don’t want L.A. to turn into New York. It’s on the precipice right now.”
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Originally Posted by ChelseaFC
Fig Central to break ground early 2015, to open in 2018
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It has been quite a wait since the false alarm of several yrs ago when the previous owner built a wood construction barricade around that same site, but, as everyone knows, nothing happened.
the sense of momentum should really increase when that proj is completed & complements other things in the hood, such as LA live when ppl are out & about & enjoying formerly vacant parts of dt.....
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Originally Posted by ThomJames
I wish the city would dump Related and let one of these Chinese companies take over development of 2nd and Grand. I mean what's the hold-up. They've had about 10 years now to develop that property. Even the courthouse is under construction and with these last congresses that's a small miracle in and of itself.
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this pic posted at the other city devlpt website shows just how much of a gap still exists up on bunker hill, across from disney hall, where the related proj is supposed to go up. I thought frank gehry's redesign for the grand ave proj was supposed to be released in october, but it has been now 3 months & not a word out of related co.
With all the big projs now underway south of BH, dtla is becoming top heavy in that direction, so the related cos really does need to get its act together.
MarshallKnight, skyscrapercity.com
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