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Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:08:17 -0700

On View | Why You Should Visit a 13-Foot-Long Art Museum in Southern California New York Times T-Magazine

Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:18:39 -0700

By KAVERI NAIR JULY 17, 2013, 1:00 PM 4 Comments

Like the courtyard houses of Marrakesh, Los Angeles’s residential architecture turns inward, away from the busy boulevards. The result is a lot of inhospitable public space, but it can also produce a special kind of pleasure. There’s a thrill, specific to L.A., in finding an amazing restaurant in a strip mall, or venturing down an alleyway past a chain-link fence to encounter the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

Not to be confused with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the gleaming institution on Wilshire Boulevard, 10 miles to the west, this museum, known as LAMOA, is a hand-built, 13-foot-long wooden structure. It sits in a paved yard near a small cluster of art studios in Eagle Rock, a neighborhood where many artists live and work. When visitors arrive, the museum’s founder and sole staff member, the sculptor Alice Könitz, greets them with a friendly wave.

“There’s a scale difference” between LAMOA and other L.A. museums, Könitz explained, with considerable understatement. “It’s, like, me running it, instead of hundreds of professionals.” As a result, Konitz adds, though LAMOA is public, “it ...

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Artforum.com Picks

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:52:54 -0700

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Holliday Movies Initiative Isabell Spengler

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:50:45 -0700

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MAK Center for Art & Architecture and ForYourArt present

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:40:27 -0700

DIALOGUES ART/ARCHITECTURE PARIS/LOS ANGELES

January 30–April 16, 2013

Practitioners and the public share exchanges across disciplines and national boundaries in salons, exhibition and publication

(West Hollywood, January 15, 2013) The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and ForYourArt host DIALOGUES: Art/Architecture, Paris/Los Angeles, an event in several modes that brings together artists and architects from Paris and L.A. to share their experiences and ideas. Leading off will be a series of three discussions at the Schindler House, followed by an exhibition of drawings and models at ForYourArt, as well as a final panel discussion for the launch of the publication that will gather works by the participants, documentation of their exchanges, and essays.

DIALOGUES is organized by Francois Perrin, a French architect practicing in Los Angeles. He previously curated the exhibition Yves Klein: Air Architecture at the MAK Center in 2004. Participating artists and architects have been invited based on their continuing cross-disciplinary work. Several of the artists often work in the architectural field, and many of the architects collaborate with artists. DIALOGUES contributors include: Doug Aitken, Berdaguer/Pejus, Barbara Bestor, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Dahlqvist/Hommert, Escher/Gunewardena, Didier Faustino, Yona Friedman, Cyprien Gaillard, Fritz ...

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In the Shape of things to come

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:18:24 -0700

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Collective Field Office

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:17:36 -0700

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LAMOA Opening

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:02:26 -0700

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Familientreffen

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:07:07 -0700

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Matryoshka

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:09:59 -0700

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