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July 2023 by Steph C.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is a city-run gallery in a beautiful building in Barnsdall Park, which is how I ended up on its mailing list (oh, Friday night wine tastings, I remember you from before I had children). I got an email about the COLA IMAP Design and Visual Artists Exhibition, featuring new work by six mid-career L.A. artists, and decided to check it out.It was a quick, pleasurable visit. The gallery was attractive and inviting, with plenty of space devoted to each artist's work. The artists featured were all connected to L.A. in one way or another: Patricia Fernández, Wakana Kimura, Michael Massenburg, Duane Paul, Elyse Pignolet, and Kyungmi Shin. I wasn't really familiar with any of them, and I enjoyed the introduction.LAMAG is free and open to the public with easy parking, so I'd definitely recommend checking it out, especially if you make it part of a larger exploration of Barnsdall Park (the park is lovely, and the Hollyhock House is fantastic). It's small, so don't expect the full museum experience, but it's well worth your twenty minutes.
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November 2022 by Zan Lee
The strangest and most underwhelming experience I have ever had at any LA, or anywhere in SoCal, museum. Considering the museum was closed all of 2020 and 2021 I was surprised and happy when it appeared on Eventbrite for an exhibit. I snagged a few tickets back in October for today, Friday the 18th, because I rarely have time during the week, but knew I would today. I drove over (I’m a local here in LA) and walked up to the building pretty excited. I went to the Hollyhock House next door a few weekends back and had a great experience so I was hoping for the same here. That was not the case.I arrived to the front doors, which were locked, at 10:58. After a minute or two a lady came and opened the door and told me I was “a bit early.” By this time it was 11:04 so I asked to confirm with her that my tickets were for 11 and she said yes. I then had to show my COVID Vaccination Card and my Driver’s License to enter. After this cold greeting I walked in and was shocked to see just a small table in the hallway with a few pictures and small descriptions from this exhibit dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. Very little info and no high definition pictures. It looked like something you’d see at a middle school science fair or walking through a long airport hallway. After looking at this for about 5 minutes I asked if I could proceed to the exhibit. The docent then told me this was in fact the exhibit… So after a few quick glances I left very frustrated and confused.It’s ridiculous that they took reservations for this and made it seem like it was the full exhibit. If anything, this should only be for people that walk up and are curious about what’s inside. They should say sorry the exhibit is closed, but we have a brief informational panel for you to check out. Not something you would want people to waste gas and time to go out of their way to see. It was honestly the most underwhelming thing I’ve ever seen. I felt like I was scammed, even though it was free admission.
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November 2022 by Zan L.
The strangest and most underwhelming experience I have ever had at any LA, or anywhere in SoCal, museum. Considering the museum was closed all of 2020 and 2021 I was surprised and happy when it appeared on Eventbrite for an exhibit. I snagged a few tickets back in October for today, Friday the 18th, because I rarely have time during the week, but knew I would today. I drove over (I'm a local here in LA) and walked up to the building pretty excited. I went to the Hollyhock House next door a few weekends back and had a great experience so I was hoping for the same here. That was not the case.I arrived to the front doors, which were locked, at 10:58. After a minute or two a lady came and opened the door and told me I was "a bit early." By this time it was 11:04 so I asked to confirm with her that my tickets were for 11 and she said yes. I then had to show my COVID Vaccination Card and my Driver's License to enter. After this cold greeting I walked in and was shocked to see just a small table in the hallway with a few pictures and small descriptions from this exhibit dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. Very little info and no high definition pictures. It looked like something you'd see at a middle school science fair or walking through a long airport hallway. After looking at this for about 5 minutes I asked if I could proceed to the exhibit. The docent then told me this was in fact the exhibit... So after a few quick glances I left very frustrated and confused.It's ridiculous that they took reservations for this and made it seem like it was the full exhibit. If anything, this should only be for people that walk up and are curious about what's inside. They should say sorry the exhibit is closed, but we have a brief informational panel for you to check out. Not something you would want people to waste gas and time to go out of their way to see. It was honestly the most underwhelming thing I've ever seen. I felt like I was scammed, even though it was free admission.
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October 2022 by Andy Wu
I recommend Freeway 101, amazing sunset by the beaches!
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February 2022 by Tammy Adams
This is beautiful contemporary museum which is centrally located and next Walt Disney Hall. And it's free. They put out a calendar on their website and you just have to sign for a day and time you want to visit. They also have the walk in options but I didn't want to wait and the not be able to go in. I highly recommend reserving your tickets ahead time.
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September 2021 by Perception Percepcion
I drove sooo many times by this place and had no clue it was there!! Its actually really nice for artist and art lovers to visit. Has nice garden, wine tasting events every now and then, cool art gallery and public events, also ceramic classes and things like that.
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October 2020 by Jose Tirado
I loved it, it's something that illustrates. ?
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October 2020 by SILVIA CARILLO
Very relaxing and beautiful..
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October 2019 by Kamari Coats
Boring
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October 2019 by 정윤자
Musical – Miru Village
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October 2019 by Judy A
Great!!
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October 2019 by Damon Adamo
It is a great place to spend time with nice views
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October 2019 by Gary Gagnon
Very nice small gallery.
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October 2019 by gajakev
The place is free. The art is awful. It would show up in a comedy about pretentious self righteous nonsense. Most of it looked like a dumpster was poured out on the floor and city employees separated the waste into piles of similar materials to recycle. I've gone to many gallaries that at least seemed to care about some standards and variation but this is the only place I felt smashing the junk would make society better.
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October 2019 by ORUGA juarez
Very nice a new experience I had never come beautiful place.??????
