Current Art Projects

Urban Art Conservation Program

In 1987, the City Council established an Urban Art Program to ensure that the City's landscape and pedestrian activity was enhanced through public art. The City's Urban Art Ordinance was adopted in November 1990 and it requires developers of most projects greater than $200,000 to place art on-site equal in value to 1% of the project cost, or to place an equal amount into the City's Art and Beautification Fund. The ordinance was last amended in 1998 with a few minor modifications. The City's first installation, "Archway" fabricated by John Canavier, was installed in 1987 and still stands in front of 8819 Harratt St. Photos and information about each work in the City's Urban Art collection can be found...(read more.)

Go To The Park

The City of West Hollywood is pleased to announce Go to the Park, the first project under its new Eastside Arts Initiative public art program.

With the input and expertise of artists, the West Hollywood community, and city leaders, Go to the Park is a site-specific public art project that shines a spotlight on West Hollywood's vibrant Eastside. From its kick-off opening on Valentine's Day, February 14 through the end of March 2009, this 45-day temporary art project will be installed in Plummer Park to honor the park's historical significance and its community value to the City of West Hollywood....(read more)

Peter Shire

The City of West Hollywood has on view through March 2009 an exhibit of Los Angeles artist Peter Shire's colorful, geometric sculptures. The exhibit is part of the City's "Art on the Outside" program and features six of Peter Shire's large-scale sculptures on the Santa Monica Boulevard median between Doheny and Almont Drives.

Peter Shire is well known for his ceramic teapots and whimsical, geometric sculptures. He has worked in craft, fine art, industrial design, architecture, furniture, ceramics, and fashion His work is in many museum collections throughout the United States and abroad, including LACMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Shire has taught art and design courses at a number of Los Angeles's art and architecture schools. His public sculptures can be found in Los Angeles at Elysian Park, the Academy Village Housing Project in North Hollywood, at the Ramada Plaza in West Hollywood and in Phoenix and Las Vegas... ...(read more)

Raymond Pettibon

The City of West Hollywood is pleased to be participating in the 2008 California Biennial with a signature work by artist Raymond Pettibon. No Title (I Thought California), 1989/2008 is now on display through March 2009 on the vertical billboard at Sunset and Olive as part of the City's Art on the Outside program.

Raymond Pettibon lives and works outside Los Angeles, where he has been an influential figure in the art community since the early 1980s. To his early admirers and collectors, he was an unofficial in-house artist for the punk music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Today his work is widely admired among the contemporary art audience and has avid devotees in the international field of drawing connoisseurs. While his style initially relied on the conventions of cartoon illustrations... ...(read more)

• Arts Participation Grant Program
  The City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission is pleased to announce that applications are now available for the Arts Participation Grant Program.
• Arts Tune Up
  (PDF format - 153kb) The City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission and in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission presents an Arts...
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• Go To The Park
  Eastside Arts Initiative Temporary Public Art Project: February 14, 2009 through March 31, 2009
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• Peter Shire
  The City of West Hollywood has on view through March 2009 an exhibit of Los Angeles artist Peter Shire's colorful, geometric sculptures. The exhibit is part of the City's "Art on the Outside" program and features six of Peter Shire's large-scale sculptures on the Santa Monica Boulevard median between Doheny and Almont Drives.
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• Raymond Pettibon
  The City of West Hollywood is pleased to be participating in the 2008 California Biennial with a signature work by artist Raymond Pettibon. No Title...
  more
• Urban Art Conservation Program
  In 1987, the City Council established an Urban Art Program to ensure that the City's landscape and pedestrian activity was enhanced through public art. The...
  more