New LA art gallery takes up an entire city block

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"WE could have made it bigger," said art dealer Iwan Wirth, reclining in a mid-century chair on the second floor of his new 116,000-square-foot gallery. "But we don't want to be (bigger). These are manageable spaces." Manageable, of course, is relative.

The new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel art gallery takes up an entire city block. The complex - seven buildings which include a former bank, three warehouses, an…