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Art Share L.A.'s 28,000-square-foot warehouse provides 30 subsidized live/work lofts for artists. Classes, exhibitions and events are also offered.

Art Share L.A.’s 28,000-square-foot warehouse provides 30 subsidized live/work lofts for artists. Classes, exhibitions and events are also offered.

  (Jabin Botsford / Los Angeles Times)

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Rents used to be cheap in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District, but the living was squalid. Not anymore. The once-grubby downtown area has made a hip transformation.

Neighborhood spotlight | L.A. Arts District

The “Wrinkles in the City” mural by JR of France adorns Angel City Brewery.

  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Neighborhood spotlight | L.A. Arts District

An old warehouse at 400 Mateo Street in the L.A. Arts District.

  (Jabin Botsford / Los Angeles Times)

Neighborhood spotlight | L.A. Arts District

A mural on 3rd Street in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District.

  (Wally Skaij / Los Angeles Times)

Neighborhood spotlight | L.A. Arts District

Everson Royce Bar is a relative newcomer to the neighborhood.

  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Neighborhood spotlight | L.A. Arts District

Shreebs serves coffee from a coverted shipping container in the L.A. Arts District.

  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Neighborhood spotlight | L.A. Arts District

The Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery and the Los Angeles skyline as seen from the gallery’s roof.

  (Stuart Palley / For The Times)

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