Which Way, L.A.?
Getty
The new Acropolis finally is open - celebrating 19th century Europe, while towering over 21st century Los Angeles. The billion dollar Getty Center up on the mountain - what will it mean for the city below?
By Warren Olney • Kevin Starr : California State Librarian. Author of series of books on California history called "The Americans and the California Dream". Most recent title is The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s. Nicolai Ouroussoff: Architecture critic, Los Angeles Times. Ben Caldwell: Director, KAOS Network, an integrated arts facility in Leimert Park. Involved in LA Culture Net, a project of the Getty Information Institute. Barry Munitz: Chancellor, California State University System. Will become the President and CEO of the Getty Trust on January 6, 1998. George Goldner: Drue Hines Chair, Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Formerly with the Getty: served as Drawings curator from 1981 to 1993 and Paintings Curator from 1989 to 1993. Stephanie Barron: Senior curator of modern and contemporary art, LA County Museum of Art. Also Vice President of Education and Public programs at LACMA. Hendrik Stooker: Recently retired as senior curator, Occidental College galleries. Former teacher of drawing and art history. Co-founder, Arroyo Art CollectiveDavid Bloom : Staff Writer, LA Daily News. Covers the MTA. Wim deWitt: Head of special collections and visual resources, Getty Research Institute.
topic: arrests at MTA meeting
