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# How Does the LA Scene Measure Up (Literally) with NYC?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/how-does-the-la-scene-measure-up-literally-with-nyc/
- Published: 2012-08-16T01:22:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:36:23.000Z
- Description: You know the tired old cliche about LA sprawl? It appears to be true about the city's art world.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Los Angeles, Manhattan, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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You know the tired old cliche about LA sprawl? It appears to be true about the city’s art world.

Artist [Zach Alan](https://www.facebook.com/zachalan2012) has superimposed Manhattan (highlighting the Chelsea gallery district — 23rd to 34th Streets and Ninth to Eleventh Avenues — in red) to demonstrate how it is virtually impossible to wander to see gallery art in LA, unlike in New York. Each of those location markers indicate a gallery, art nonprofit, museum or space with an art program.

Density is certainly working against LA’s favor in terms of an art scene.

*Original* [*LA gallery map*](https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=216451679552433398126.0004be48599ad8486cdf9&msa=0&ref=hyperallergic.com) *via* [*Culver City Gallery Guide*](http://ccgalleryguide.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)