Visit the Hammer Museum
Sunday, August 21, 2005
It's free with a student ID, and right now admission is free during the summer. It's not a big place, but they make use of all the space. For example, the lobby space and the stairwell to the rest of the museum has a rotating display of emerging artists. The Hammer Project series makes use of this difficult space. For the permanent collections, since I'm partial to Impressionism, I'm quite happy to find that they have quite a few pieces by van Gogh and Monet in their permanent collections. The whole museum is not that big, and you can probably visit all the galleries in one day, but it's worth it to go back again for different rotating exhibits.