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Title
Unfiltered art for twenty bucks
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator
McCulloh, Douglas
Contributor
Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 200-
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's caption reads, "The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery has an annual "open call" exhibition. They charge twenty bucks an entry and put up everything that comes in. Six preparators spent a week-and-a-half hanging 571 works by 571 artists. The show is utterly unfiltered for quality or talent, a mercilessly revealing barometer of art in L.A. In the main gallery, on the most prominent wall, in the center, at the very top, the curators put the biggest, boldest painting - a giant question mark. The placement can't have been an accident."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00081669
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b4_f2_i45
CARL0004974163
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3788
Subject
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Art galleries, Commercial--California--Los Angeles
Art, Amateur--California--Los Angeles
Art--California--Los Angeles
Art--Exhibitions
Barnsdall Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs

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