New York Times on art in Los Angeles

I know this is a bit bigger than Pedro, but as the 15th District has five of the Department of Cultural Affairs twenty or so facilities, it's in our local interest to know what's going on at the general city level. The DCA is still without a permanent head, and has been struggling for years. New York, London and Paris get 10-15 million cultural tourists per year, and we get 2.5 million. There's nothing shocking or groundbreaking in the article, but it's worth reading for those of us of an arty bent.

Read the article here. Both the New York Times and the New York based arts magazines have been paying a certain amount of unusual attention to Los Angeles lately, as they try and puzzle out exactly what's going on out here on the West coast.