Photos: Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in downtown Los Angeles has big ideas

Construction crews have been readying the old Pillsbury flour mill. The complex of buildings date from the 1890s to the 1940s.

The building will retain some of its original graffiti murals, such as this one, by Else Oner, which features wheat-pasted posters by Jeanette Paredes, in the planting garden.

Iwan and Manuela Wirth stand in the oldest part of the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel L.A. complex: a bank building that dates to the 1890s.

Paul Schimmel, a long-time Los Angeles curator, is now a partner at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. He is co-curating the gallery’s first exhibition of sculpture by women.