Video: George Herms speaks about the work of Cameron, 2002. Footage courtesy of the Cameron Parsons Foundation

Video: Karl Benjamin speaks about his work, December 2009

Video: Documentation of the artistic process, fabrication, and installation of Robert Irwin’s installation Black on White

Video: Irving Blum and Billy Al Bengston speak about the work of John Altoon, 2010-11

Video: Making the Scene—find out about the L.A. gallery scene during the postwar years

Audio: Hear Robert Alexander discuss his artwork. Excerpt from an interview with Robert Alexander by Sandra Leonard Starr, 1986. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Sandra Leonard Starr, 2011.M.22. Courtesy of the Temple of Man, Inc.

Video: Learn more about the region’s network of art schools with artist Barbara T. Smith

Exhibition Film: Learn about the birth of the L.A. art scene from the people who shaped it. Their dynamic developments and artistic innovations during the postwar period turned the city into a world-class art center.

Video: George Herms speaks about the work of Wallace Berman, March 2011

Vertical Sculpture, Spear Form, 1957, John Mason. Glazed stoneware. 67 5/16 x 28 x 12 in. Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum. © John Mason

Semina cover with Wife (photograph of Shirley Berman), 1959, Wallace Berman. Semina journal, no. 4 (1959) by Wallace Berman. Halftone reproduction on cardstock. 9 7/16 x 8 x 1/16 in. The Getty Research Institute, 2564-801.no1.2. Courtesy of the Estate of Wallace Berman and Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959, Edward Kienholz. Paint and resin on wood, printed color reproductions, ink on paper, vertebrae, telephone parts, candy, dental molds, metal, pencil, and leather. 87 x 42 x 21 in. The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Lannan Foundation. © Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Photo: Susan Einstein

Simon Rodia's Towers (Watts Towers) in Los Angeles, 1967. The Getty Research Institute, Julius Shulman Photography Archive, 2004.R.10. Used with permission