LOS ANGELES ART GALLERIES 

Art Galleries

Barnsdall Park and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery:

On a hill overlooking east Hollywood, the park is one of the more overlooked attractions in this city. The biggest claim to fame is Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, built by oil heiress Aline Barnsdall in the early 1920s. Take the tour of the magnificent example of Wright's architectural genius and see the Hollywood Gallery exhibit devoted to Wright's design and that of his son, Lloyd Wright. Local artists and school children display their works at the Municipal Art and Junior Arts Center in the park. Location: 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA. (213) 485-4581

Fahey/Klein Gallery:

Vintage and contemporary photography. Besides exhibiting rare images the gallery is presenting a mini-retrospective, with prints dating back to 1946 that display the diversity, imagination, and playfulness that mark the work of Irving Penn, who was associated with Vogue for many years. Location: 148 North LaBrea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Phone (213) 934-2250

Chac-Mool Gallery:

Contemporary Fine Art. Location: 8920 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Phone (310) 550-6792

Frank Lloyd Gallery:

This gallery features modern and contemporary ceramic art. A featured show included the works of Peter Voulkos, former teacher at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and probably the person most responsible for bringing the art of ceramics from a utilitarian craft into the realm of fine art. Other pioneers in the art of ceramics represented at this gallery are Laura Anderson, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, and Paul Soldner.

Location: 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-5B, Santa Monica, CA. Phone (310) 264-3866

Skirball Cultural Center:

Although this facility is only two years old, the gallery has gotten a completely new face-lift. Building on the foundation of the Center's extensive collection of Jewish art and artifacts, the newly opened exhibit "Visions and Values" consists of a tracing of deep Jewish history, a fleshing out of Jewish religious culture, and the evolving Jewish American experience. Re-opening of the galleries on December 5, 1999 coincided with the first weekend of Hanukkah. Location: 2710 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. Phone (310) 440-4500

Anthropos:

Founded in 1976, the specialty is Ancient and Tribal sculpture from the old and new worlds including Egyptian, Mediterranean, Pre-Columbian, and North American Indian and Eskimo Art. Location: Beverly Hills, CA. Phone (310) 456-7711