Hammer Museum

This guide to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles follows Armand Hammer, the octogenarian oil tycoon running Occidental Petroleum, from his falling-out with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art over how his art collection would be displayed, to his 1988 decision to build a museum of his own on an old Westwood parking garage next to his company's headquarters. It traces the shareholder lawsuit that followed, accusing him of treating Occidental like his personal wallet, and the judge who eventually stepped in to cap the spending. Listen for the Renaissance-palazzo courtyard he built to hold it all.