Listed in Los Feliz: Richard Neutra's Wirin House, circa 1949

List price:  $4,500,000

Address:  2622 Glendower Ave., Los Feliz

2262 Square feet - 2 bedrooms, 3 baths

Cost per foot:  $1989

Seller:  Mark Seliger, Iconic Portrait Photographer

Richard Neutra's Alpha Wirin House, 1949. Mid-century modern architecture, recognized as one of Neutra's finer commissions. Meticulously restored by California modernist architect Mark Haddawy who specializes in historic preservation, to maintain Neutra's original vision.  Occupying two levels on a ¾-acre hillside lot, The Wirin house features walls of glass that overlook the city and is set on private professionally landscaped grounds, with a sunny swimmers pool, spa,  lush vegetation and spectacular views.

Home features include ceilings lined with rich, tongue-in-groove planks of wood,  Neutra’s ever-present built-in seating, and balconies that overlook the lushly landscaped yard and swimming pool.  The home has  great indoor-outdoor flow and plenty of space for entertaining.

Right across the street from the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Ennis-Brown House, this is the second Neutra home to hit the eastside market in a week.  

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery’ present two connected exhibitions: Doris Duke’s Shangri La and Shangri La: Imagined Cities

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery presents two connected exhibitions: 

Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art AND Shangri La: Imagined Cities.

The highly topical and groundbreaking Los Angeles / Islam Arts Initiative (LA/IAI). The DCA-commissioned contemporary companion exhibition, Shangri La: Imagined Cities, provides a critical juxtaposition to Doris Duke’s Shangri La (which rounds up its national tour in LA and spurred the idea for the Initiative) through the presentation of contemporary works that produce a multiplicity of worlds, interpretations, and investigations without ignoring the implications of organizing around particular geographic or religious lines.

Designed to build a greater understanding of the role of Islamic arts and breakdown negative stereotypes surrounding Islamic culture, the first-of-its-kind, pioneering LA/ Islam Arts Initiativemarks the first time a city has brought together 30 major cultural institutions from The Getty to CalArts to ignite a dialogue to ensure the complex voices of the communities are heard, seen, and experienced.

Underscoring Los Angeles’s role as one of the epicenters of visual constructions regarding Islam and the Middle East, through architecture, film and its large Middle Eastern and Islamic populations, LA/IAI infiltrates our city from October-December, presenting a series of events throughout the fall, including video installations, scholarly symposia, films, concerts, performances, and other activities.

Please visit www.laislamarts.org for more information. 

The Greek Theatre might be getting an new operator

The Greek Theatre is located at 2700 Vermont, Los Feliz

The iconic open-air Greek Theatre in Los Feliz's Griffith Park is the city's "highest revenue-producing non-golf concession" contract.

The current contract with Nederlander expires October 31, 2015, and word is that two groups are trying to win control of the Greek via a 10-year operations contract.   According to the Daily News.  Live Nation is the favorite of parks officials and is on track to get the contract, but Nederlander Corporation (which runs the Pantages and has been maintaining the Greek since 1975) and its new partner AEG Live (which is owned by AEG, the company that owns LA Live) have the support of the venue's neighbors, who are freaked out that a new company in charge would bring in more noise.

The LA Times reports that many homeowners seem concerned that "noise and other nuisances" would increase if management of the venue were to shift. Community group Friends of Griffith Park also supports Nederlander, saying it has been "a good neighbor" to the residents.