THE Magazine - Los Angeles

Sponto Gallery at 7 Dudley Avenue was the home of the infamous Venice West Cafe from the late 50's to the early 60's - an important birthplace for the Beat movement, much like North Beach in San Francisco, the Village in New York and the Left Bank in Paris. Sponto Gallery retrieves the explorations of Alan Kaprow's Happenings, Jack Smith's experimental films and the Fluxus art movement with its various film, poetry and comedy events