Rollin rock

摘要

Sunshine and cheap land lured the nascent motion-picture industry west in the early 20th century. Los Angeles, the sprawling city that grew up beside the film studios, created fortunes out of railways, property and oil. The new barons, such as Henry Huntington and William Randolph Hearst, bought European art and (mostly) left their collections to the public, la artists, meanwhile, developed a style that was wild, free and insouciant. Yet both they and their hometown's museums have long suffered from a sense of inferiority. That may be about to change.