Alt La La: DIY Art Spaces in Los Angeles

You won’t see Ryan Gosling or Emma Stone dance across the Los Angeles gridlock, as they did in the 2016 musical La La Land. Stranded in the LA art scene, you’re more likely to see a version of the 1993 drama Falling Down, in which Michael Douglas abandons his car in traffic and treks to the ocean on foot. LA nurtures a kind of angst, for which the exasperating freeways become an easy metaphor. If the SoCal light playing on airplanes and cars informed the Finish Fetish of the 1960s, t