The Santa Monica Museum of Art, which closed its Bergamont Station location last year, will announce Friday that it intends to reopen in downtown L.A. in 2017 and change its name to the Institute ...

Santa Monica Museum of Art. Bergamot Station G1 2525 Michigan Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90404 (310) 586-6488 www.smmoa.org Price: $5 adults/$3 artists, students, and seniors.

City officials and students and faculty from the Art Institutes of California at Los Angeles and Hollywood are attending this public event.