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Article: Acropolis now. (Getty Center, Los Angeles, California)
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- Sunset
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- January 1, 1998
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Los Angeles, the city of epics, gets ready for the premiere of its biggest blockbuster yet - the $1-billion Getty Center
As the Getty Center rose mysteriously on a hill high above perpetually clogged Sepulveda Pass, the Richard Meier-designed arts campus was a sitting duck.
Thirteen years in the making, with its $1-billion cost paid by the world's richest arts institution and a site that seemed deliberately removed from Los Angeles itself, the Getty made an easy mark for those inclined to take potshots at anything so grandiose, expensive, and unabashedly Establishment.
And for all of its incomparable high-culture attributes and Parthenon-like mien, the ...