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Collector Joe D. Price's Shin'enkan Collection of more than 300 Japanese scroll and screen paintings represents the core of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Japanese holdings. In 1983, Price and his wife Etsuko Yoshimochi bequeathed about 300 Japanese screens and scrolls to the museum and donated $5 million in seed money for a building to ...
She is sansei (third-generation) Japanese-American, and a professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. [2] Takayama-Ogawa's heritage since the 15th century of Japanese ceramic art influences her work, that usually explores beauty, decoration, ornamentation and narrative while also introducing a dialogue that rejects ...
The Japanese Garden is a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) public Japanese garden in Los Angeles, located in the Lake Balboa district in the central San Fernando Valley, adjacent to the Van Nuys and Encino neighborhoods. [1] It is specifically on the grounds of the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant adjacent to Woodley Park, in the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area ...
The Department of Recreation and Parks is an agency of the government of the City of Los Angeles and is organized and governed according to the City Charter. It is charged with establishing, constructing, maintaining, operating, and controlling parks and recreational facilities in its jurisdiction, as well as managing concessions or privileges for the purpose of public recreation in its ...
Los Angeles: Art: Located on Miracle Mile, it is Los Angeles' only arts institution dedicated to craft dA Center for the Arts Pomona: San Gabriel Valley: Art: website, community arts center with exhibitions Descanso Gardens: La Cañada Flintridge: San Gabriel Valley: Historic house: Botanic gardens, also features Boddy House, a 22-room mansion ...
L.A. ceramist Linda Hsiao's hand-built vessels — owls, birds and mythological creatures — exhibit a playful style that is thoroughly her own.
The villa that forms the district's centerpiece was constructed from 1911 to 1914 by artisans and craftsmen from Japan for the German-American Adolph Leopold Bernheimer (1866-1944) and Eugene Elija Bernheimer (1865-1924) [noted as brothers to Charles L. Bernheimer] to house their collection of Japanese art and valuable items. Mainly acquired in ...
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.