How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s

Founded by California State University Northridge art professor Robert L. Smith and his former wife Tobi Smith, LAICA (1974–1987) became Los Angeles’s first nonprofit exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art.

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