California Los Angeles Getty Center
Opened at the end of 1997 the Getty Center near the Sepulveda Pass north of Wilshire Boulevard towers over the surrounding area Designed by modernist architect Richard Meier at a cost of 1 billion The museum palace is the result of the largest cash endowment in all the arts By law the Getty Foundation must spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year At his death in the 1970s oil magnate J Paul Getty left 700 million to support the museum That sum has since grown to a reported 4 billion
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