Chung King Road

Chung King Road, along with Chung King Court containing a water fountain in its center, is a pedestrian street complex in the northwest corner of Chinatown, Los Angeles. This street is a part of "New Chinatown," built in the 1930s and 1940s, and was the location of mostly Chinese specialty shops, importers of Chinese art objects, and Chinese benevolent associations. In the late 1990s many of the storefronts were sitting unused, and several of them were converted into art galleries and art studios. With its nearly weekly schedule of art gallery exhibition openings, Chung King Road is now one of the centers of art and nightlife in Downtown Los Angeles.^[1] Annual events include Chinese New Year and the Golden Dragon Parade,^[2] The Moon Festival, KCRW's Chinatown Summer Nights,^[3] the closing party of LA's Design Week and the Perform! Now! Festival.^[4]

Chung King Road complex is home to the following galleries and businesses:

• A.G. Geiger Bookstore
• Alex Cheung Company
• Automata Arts, performance space specializing in experimental puppetry^[5]
• Caryl M. Christian Levy, artist
• Cause Art Gallery^[6][7][8]
• Charlie James Gallery^[9]
• Chungking Studio^[10]

• Coagula Curatorial^[11][12]
• Ed Freeman Photography^[13]
• Exhale Unlimited Gallery^[14]
• Foo Chow Restaurant
• F. See, antiques
• The Good Luck Gallery ^[15]
• Gregorio Escalante Gallery
• Hong Sang Lung Market, since 1949
• Hoy Sun Ning Yung Association
• The Institute for Art and Olfaction
• Ling's
• Li Yuen Gifts
• Preen, Inc., hospitality design^[16]
• Slow Culture Gallery
• The Jade Tree
• The Public School
• Woo's Gifts

External links

• Curbed LA- Where do Architects Live?
• LA Times - Courtyard home in L.A.'s Chinatown
• NY Times - OUT THERE: Chinatown Reborn As a Bohemian Outpost
• National Geographic - Los Angeles: Chung King Road Galleries
• Downtown art scene - Chung King Road - la.indymedia
• UC Riverside ARTSblock - John Dingler's Moviettes

References

1. Pierson, David. "A City's Chinese Passage." Los Angeles Times. July 25, 2006.
2. https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=VwngMyIsZ28
3. "KCRW Chinatown Summer Nights Return." World News Network.
4. Korek, Bettina. "Perform! Now! Festival: Interview With Francois Ghebaly" Huffington Post. July 29, 2010.
5. Laden, Tanja M. "Best Experimental Puppet Theater Los Angeles 2012" LA Weekly. 2012.
6. Cause Gallery Website: Two story gallery; painting, sculpture, video,
7. Cause Gallery Map, Open Sat 4-10PM and by appointment, 213-761-8667
8. Green, Jonathan "Screening of John Dingler's Moviettes"
9. Mizota, Sharon. "Art review: Valerie Green at Charlie James Gallery." Los Angeles Times.April 4, 2014.
10. Sahagun, Louis. "Photographer chronicles hope and despair in the California desert." Los Angeles Times. February 28, 2014
11. Coagula Art Journal
12. Vankin, Deborah. "Kim Dingle debuts 'Wine Bar for Children' at Coagula Curatorial" Los Angeles Times. October 27, 2013.
13. Stephens, Craig. "The Many Faces Of Ed Freeman." The Los Angeles Post. July 5, 2012.
14. "Exhale Unlimited Presents: The Outsiders, a group exhibition benefiting ECF Art Centers & Lamp Commu." Downtown News. June 30, 2012.
15. April 4, 2014.
16. Jackson, Peter. "Tastemaker: Alexis Readinger" Los Angeles Magazine. November 1, 2009.