Street · Venice Beach boardwalk
Venice Art Walls
Legal aerosol walls at Venice Beach, painted on weekends. Known as the Pit since the 1960s.
Places · Venice, CA
Venice, CA
Venice still lets you paint on the wall. The binoculars are a building. A clown kicks on a corner. The legal graffiti pit is open on weekends. The studio does not ask the museum first.
On theme
What to see
Museums, galleries, and other unique spaces.
Public sculpture · 340 Main Street, Venice
Binoculars Building
Venice office building by Frank Gehry (1991). The entrance is a 45-foot binoculars sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.
Public sculpture · Main Street and Rose Avenue
Ballerina Clown
Jonathan Borofsky's 1989 sculpture at Main and Rose in Venice: a 30-foot clown in a tutu.
Gallery · 45 N Venice Blvd
L.A. Louver
Venice gallery founded in 1975. Artists include David Hockney, Edward Kienholz, and Betye Saar.
Literary arts · 681 Venice Boulevard
Beyond Baroque
Literary arts center in the old Venice City Hall since 1968. Readings, workshops, and a bookstore.
Museum · 9341 Venice Boulevard
Museum of Jurassic Technology
Culver City museum founded by David Wilson. Exhibits that mix natural history, fact, and fiction.
Museum · 17985 Pacific Coast Highway
The Getty Villa
The Getty's museum of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art, in a reconstructed Roman country house in Pacific Palisades.
Room / camera · 1450 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica
Camera Obscura Art Lab
An 1890s camera obscura in a Santa Monica park building. The room itself is the camera.
The work · Venice, CA
The studio
Milana Blackman's working studio in Venice, California.
Know before you go
If you are in Venice
The work moves. Ask. The point of a field series is that the studio is not a secret. It is just not a museum.