The Historian · Zoe · Los Angeles
The Getty Center
I think about what $1.3 billion in oil wealth bought: a European art collection in a building visible from every highway in the basin. That's a very Los Angeles story.
Richard Meier's 1997 travertine complex is itself a monument — to Cold War institutional wealth and the idea that Los Angeles could claim cultural authority.
— Zoe, The Historian
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