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Home Ground: ‘Art is the Client:’ LACMA, the wrecking ball, and surviving jewel box

Columnist · April 1, 2020

Four buildings at LACMA face the percussion hammer, wrecking ball or computer-controlled hydraulic jack — perhaps all three — but not quite yet. Remediation began earlier this year, removing asbestos […]

LACMA on track to build Geffen Galleries up and across Wilshire

Suzan Filipek · March 4, 2020

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 […]

Construction is poised to start for LACMA’s Geffen Galleries

Suzan Filipek · January 1, 2020

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is thriving, or at least the part of it that is open, while preparations are being made for its new David Geffen […]

On Preservation: Preservation anchors construction at La Brea Tar Pits, Academy, LACMA

Columnist · January 1, 2020

With the announcement of Weiss / Manfredi as chief architects of the reimagining of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, a clear and welcome pattern has emerged. In each step […]

Around the Town: High Tea, Sheba gala, ‘Gutsy Women,’ history events and BBBS Big Bash

Columnist · December 4, 2019

“Meow, my little pretties — come have a purr-fectly good time.” And, so, more than 70 ladies descended upon the most ‘terrifying’ and beautiful “fur-midable” Las Palmas home of Margo […]

LACMA is packing, preparing for construction in early 2020

Suzan Filipek · October 31, 2019

Statues and portraits are being packed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in preparation for construction of the David Geffen Galleries, set to start in early 2020. The […]

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