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LACMA Geffen Galleries construction on schedule

LACMA Geffen Galleries construction on schedule

| February 29, 2024 | 0 Comments

The money has been raised — the $750 million goal, plus more — and construction is moving along at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Building LACMA, as the ambitious building project is called, will culminate by the end of the year with completion of the expansive reinforced concrete David Geffen Galleries building designed […]

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Progress becomes visible at LACMA

Progress becomes visible at LACMA

| December 28, 2023 | 0 Comments

Viewed from the west, from the Zev Yaroslavsky Plaza or the decomposed granite field surrounding Michael Heizer’s giant rock, “Levitated Mass,” the western end of the new David Geffen Galleries building is emerging from its cocoon of steel scaffolding — hovering like a giant wing over the existing Ray’s and Stark Bar. The finished ceiling and floor […]

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Reinforced concrete: the modern equivalent of stone in art?

Reinforced concrete: the modern equivalent of stone in art?

| August 31, 2023 | 0 Comments

• New exhibit at LACMA A new exhibition just opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). “Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone” includes 125 works from circa 2200–1800 B.C. to recent pieces by contemporary artists. The exhibit curator’s focus is on the role that imagination plays in perceiving images in the […]

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LACMA’s Geffen Galleries half-done; construction above ground next

LACMA’s Geffen Galleries half-done; construction above ground next

| October 27, 2022 | 0 Comments

In mid-October, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced that construction of its new David Geffen Galleries building — that will span Wilshire Boulevard — is 50 percent complete and that the museum’s fundraising campaign has now secured $700 million of its $750 million goal. The accompanying aerial photograph from September shows the […]

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art Architect visits construction site

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Architect visits construction site

| July 28, 2022 | 0 Comments

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LACMA on track to build Geffen Galleries up and across Wilshire

LACMA on track to build Geffen Galleries up and across Wilshire

| March 4, 2020 | 0 Comments

A world-class art gallery that will stretch across Wilshire Blvd. over traffic below seems so quintessentially car-centric Los Angeles, it’s almost surprising it wasn’t thought of before. But the design for the David Geffen Galleries was more a process of happenstance than a clear strategy. “It was a big idea. It was a simple idea,” […]

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