LA Renaissance
“Los Angeles will be the cultural capital of the millennium.” This
statement was recently made by LA’s “vice-president of cultural tourism” who
then went on to state that there are more major museums per head of population in
LA than in any other US city (300, to be precise), not to mention “more artists,
writers, film-makers, actors, dancers and musicians than in any other city in the
history of civilization”. His conclusion? “LA is the most fascinating cultural
destination in America.”
If LA can claim to be a cultural Mecca, it’s because of the Getty Museum.
This fine-art museum looks down from a Santa Monica hilltop over the city, a
monument to culture. It costs well over $1bn which forces people to take note.
Three million people visited the Getty in its first year. They come in the
same coaches that take them to Disneyland and Beverly Hills. Almost
immediately, it has become a part of the LA tour - an art museum that rivals
Universal Studios, Hollywood and the Baywatch beaches.
5 Read the text again. Are these statements true or false? Correct any
false statements.
1. There are over 300 museums in LA.
2. Visitors to the Getty Museum can see a lot of paintings.
3. The Getty Museum is in the city centre.
4. The museum costs more than a billion dollars to build.
5. Three million went to the Getty museum last year.
6. The museum attracts the same tourists as Universal Studios.
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