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."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
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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