THE Magazine - Los Angeles

DOWNTOWN ART WALK
The Downtown Art Walk is a free, self-guided tour of the many art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles -- commercial art galleries, museums, and non-profit arts venues. Public information and a printable pdf map of the Downtown Art Walk are available at www.downtownartwalk.com.

Participants in the Downtown Art Walk are 7+FIG Art Space, 1927 Gallery at the Fine Arts Building, Art Slave, Arty, bank, Bert Green Fine Art, Coldsprings Fine Art, compact/space, Crack Gallery, Crewest, Downtown Art Center Gallery, El Nopal Press, FIDM Museum & Galleries, Fifty/24LA Gallery, G727, Gary Leonard, The Hive Gallery, Infusion Gallery, The Japanese American National Museum, Julie Rico Gallery, Katalyst, LA Artcore Center, LAMP Community Art Project, The Landing Party, The Last Laugh, The Latino Museum, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, The Los Angeles Central Library Galleries, M. J. Higgins, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Morono Kiang Gallery, Museum of Neon Art, Niche.LA Video Art, Phantom Galleries LA, Pharmaka Art, Phyllis Stein Art, PYO Gallery, Gallery at REDCAT, Spring Arts Collective Gallery, SWITCH, and USC Windows.

Two Free Art Walk shuttles move visitors around the Downtown Art Walk from 6-10 pm. Pickups and stops are available on demand -- just wave to the vehicle to stop or alert the driver to exit. The shuttle are vintage retrofitted 1940s school buses, and are hosted by Kim Cooper and Richard Schave of Esotouric, who curate them as moving performance venues. The north/south Gallery Row shuttle is called "The Hippodrome," and the east/west shuttle is called "Hazard's Pavilion." Many thanks to the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council for their generous sponsorship of the Hippodrome shuttle service, and Brookfield Properties for their generous sponsorship of Hazard's Pavilion.

The Downtown Art Walk is generously sponsored by the The Los Angeles Downtown News, Patina Restaurant Group, The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council and the Historic Downtown Business Improvement District. Sponsoring area restaurants, bars, stores and services are also listed on the Art Walk map.

Visitors are encouraged to arrive by the abundant public transit network in Los Angeles, as the Art Walk is easily accessible by the Metro Red, Gold, and Blue line trains until midnight, scores of local buses, and many Rapid buses, some of which run until at least midnight. Parking is plentiful in the area, at meters on the street until 4 pm, and free after 6 pm on most streets. There is a sponsoring, indoor parking garage which offers a $5 flat rate and is open 24 hours (details on map). Once here, local LA City DASH buses are an easy way to get around for only 25¢ until 6 pm, and there is free, special evening shuttle service on Art Walk nights from 6-10 pm -- the exact routes are shown on the Art Walk map. Additional information is available on the Art Walk website.