The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Sunken red sandstone museum with galleries wrapped around a subterranean courtyard.
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This guide to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles starts underground, with architect Arata Isozaki's decision to bury most of the building rather than compete with the glass towers rising around Bunker Hill in the 1980s. It follows the museum's early gamble on buying eighty major abstract expressionist and pop artworks from the Italian dealer Giuseppe Panza on an installment plan, and the decades of overspending that later drained its endowment toward almost nothing by 2008. Stand in the sunken courtyard, beneath the single stone arch, as you listen.
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