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Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels"; Spanish), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California.

With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in California.

Located in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over, Los Angeles covers an area of about The city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles metropolitan area and the Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 13 million and over 18 million people, respectively, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world as well as the second-largest in the United States and the densest urban area in the United States.

Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States.

The city's inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos.

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century.

Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us.

Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world.

Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that challenge traditional boundaries and defy easy definition.

Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or ‘ism.’ Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality.

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection.

Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculptures, decorative arts, furniture, textiles, costumes, drawings, pastels, watercolors, collages, prints, artist's books, photographs, and installation art are also regularly shown.

Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as performance arts, music concerts, or poetry readings.