Craft Contemporary
Craft museum in a former restaurant-gallery that once auctioned its own collection to survive.
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This guide to Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles traces the museum back to an artist named Edith Wyle, who opened a restaurant with a folk-art gallery upstairs in 1965 simply because she wanted both under one roof. It follows the venture's growth into a serious nonprofit museum, Wyle's decade-plus fight to keep it independent, and the 1997 offer she turned down from the county museum nearby. Stand where the old restaurant's dining room once served omelettes below the original gallery.
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