Los Angeles, Museum Capital of Contemporary Art?

Sterling Ruby is reflected in his “Acts/Survival Horror,” made of clear urethane, dye, wood and a Formica base. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

The LA Times is teasing the launch of the Marciano Art Foundation. In the process, they make a case for Los Angeles as new capital for viewing Contemporary art:

The Marciano Art Foundation adds to L.A.’s quickly expanding museum landscape. The Broad museum opened in late 2015 in downtown L.A., across the street from the Museum of Contemporary Art. The non-collecting Main Museum made a soft debut in downtown’s Old Bank District in October. The Santa Monica Museum of Art will reopen this fall as the newly renamed Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in the downtown Arts District, where the relatively new Hauser & Wirth gallery shows museum-level ambition. Not far away in Exposition Park, George Lucas’ $1-billion Museum of Narrative Art is planning a 2021 premiere. And the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last month revealed its latest designs for a $600-million makeover, with groundbreaking scheduled for next year.

L.A.’s Marciano art museum will debut May 25. But first: A sneak peek (LA Times)