Painting the Picture of L.A.'s Unlikely Art Boom

That’s the overwhelming impression to be gleaned from “The L.A. Art Boom”, Wall Street Journal reporter Lauren A. E. Schuker’s examination of the ways three-comma movers and shakers are re-framing the west coast art scene.

From the hint of art dealer Larry Gagosian’s Oscar party next spring at a home once owned by Gary Cooper, to staggering donation amounts, to the fact that consignments from Christies’ Los Angeles have tripled in the past year, Schuker compellingly captures the very (Eli) broad flavors of a movement decades in the making.