COLLECTOR BILLIE MILAM WEISMAN AND ARTIST LARRY BELL

In 1982, Frederick R. Weisman purchased a historic villa in the leafy Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Together with his wife, the curator Billie Milam Weisman, the entrepreneur and inveterate art collector moved over 400 works into the space, transforming it into a living homage to modernist, postwar, and contemporary art. Today, Billie helms the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, making its holdings— which include works by Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, Helen Frankenthaler, and Ed Ruscha—available to the public through tours and loans to museums worldwide. Here, Billie speaks to Larry Bell—the contemporary artist whose glass cubes she first encountered as a conservator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—about the city that defined their careers.