In a city as large and diverse as Los Angeles the art scene has never had a traditional center to call its home. "The art scene has always moved a lot,” Ben Thornborough, a director of Regen Projects said, "it’s constantly in flux.”To get more galleries news, you can visit shine news official website.

As such the city’s art galleries are spread across the sprawling metropolis, settling in small clusters in the neighborhoods of Hollywood, Culver City, Venice, Beverly Hills, and Downtown.The resurgence of Hollywood as an arts district was arguably started by gallerist Shaun Regen’s decision to open a giant space in the neighborhood in 2012. "The thing about Hollywood is that it has a lot of media buildings and warehouses that are perfect for galleries,” she told artnet News.

Here, blue-chip galleries like Regen Projects, representing artists such as Matthew Barney, Catherine Opie, Glenn Ligon, Marilyn Minter, and Anish Kapoor, are located close to emerging arts spaces such as Hannah Hoffman Gallery. As gallery director Ramsey Alderson put it, "Hollywood is always surviving and there’s a nice community.”
According to gallerist Esther Kim Varet of Various Small Fires, which focuses on international emerging artists: "Hollywood is perfect because a lot of the original LA galleries are here. Since we’re an LA gallery we wanted to be near the OG LA galleries.” She also noted that while there was certainly a trend pointing towards downtown, she said, "a lot of the downtown buildings are owned by big real-estate companies so you could be priced out.”

Nearby, Steve Turner gallery focuses on North and Latin American artists, in a city where about half of its residents identify as Hispanic. "I can visit the highest caliber of artists in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and Colombia,” gallerist Steve Turner said. "I take these artists from South America and give them their first show in the US,” he said.As close to a proper arts district as LA has to offer, a lot of art galleries have settled in the neighborhood nestled in between auto repair shops in a convenient side-by-side format that is not dissimilar to New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, albeit with much better weather.

Built around Blum & Poe, which arguably started the settlement of La Cienega Boulevard when it opened a large space in the neighborhood in 2003, followed by a move to their current location in 2009. The gallery represents a mix of mid-career and established artists, such as Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Pia Camil, and Julian Schnabel.

"There is no center. LA’s art scene has been all around, but we wanted a historical foothold,” gallery partner Jeff Poe told artnet News. "In terms of LA what we did was radical because it’s a big box gallery,” he added.Nearby galleries also include mainstays on LA’s scene such as Cherry and Martin, China Art Objects, Samuel Freeman, Honor Fraser, Luis de Jesus, and Roberts and Tilton.

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