Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in downtown Los Angeles has big ideas
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel occupies an entire city block on East 3rd Street in the downtown Arts District. Of the 100,000 square feet, 30,000 is reserved for exhibition space.
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Construction crews have been readying the old Pillsbury flour mill. The complex of buildings date from the 1890s to the 1940s.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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