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Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is an art museum in Los Angeles, United States.
About Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA; formerly known as the Santa Monica Museum of Art) is a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, California, United States. As an independent and non-collecting art museum (or kunsthalle), it exhibits the work of local, national, and international contemporary artists. Until May 2015, the museum was based at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica, California. In May 2016, the museum announced an official name change to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) and its relocation to Los Angeles's Downtown Arts District. The museum reopened to the public in September 2017.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles by the numbers
- Founded
- 1984
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Website
- www.theicala.org
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