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Anyone could’ve predicted it, with the type and quality of the glass, the sun hitting it during commuting hours, drivers will be blinded and accidents will happen. Overlooked by @LACity & @LACountyBOS overzealous personal injury lawyers will soon cost us all millions.
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“We’re absolutely thrilled that Erewhon is becoming a permanent fixture of the museum experience,” [@LACMA’s] Michael Govan…said in a news release. “Erewhon champions creativity and well being while fiercely dedicating itself to its communities.”
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#Erewhon is now a permanent fixture at LACMA, complete with a museum-branded smoothie latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Brad Pitt brought on as executive producer for Peter Zumthor documentary dezeen.com/2026/08/20/brad-p… via @dezeen
“The black disappeared…the concrete went grey, then the curved glass disappeared and the building now looks like something very different indeed. Perhaps an airport terminal. There have been criticisms…its lack of wall space…radical value engineering.”
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Yet another massive sculpture by a white male dominating @LACMA’s campus. And it needs hundreds of thousands of gallons of water to keep it alive. If only LACMA leadership can see the symbolism with this. Or maybe they just don’t care.
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“The building [@LACMA CEO Michael] Govan has opted for, while impressive, is materially rigid and conceptually inflexible, with even more stubbornness baked into its DNA than even the most severe of encyclopedic museums.“
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“Asked…how [to] hang art… on concrete [ the @LACMA CEO] was breezy: ‘You can just drill right into the walls. It’s very sturdy.’ [Changing] the exhibit…they would simply fill up those holes and drill new ones, ‘like a good pair of old blue jeans.’”
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“As [@LACMA’s CEO Michael] Govan walked the journalists through the sinuous galleries, he was energetic, full of quotations and anecdotes about Zumthor, his star architect. Zumthor was not there.”
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Modern marvel or concrete ‘blob’? Inside LA’s divisive $700m art gallery. Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building has been a decade in the making and has long vexed critics, but its CEO hopes to turn things around. By @loisbeckett theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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And where was Peter Zumthor during his supposed building’s unveiling? Perhaps he’s staying away as, he once famously noted, ““There are no Zumthor details any more.”
If this was the unveiling of the the Peter Zumthor designed building, then where was Peter Zumthor? Perhaps he’s been a no show because, as he notably said, “There are no Zumthor details any more.”
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An LA moment: LACMA Opens the Doors to Its New Building nytimes.com/2025/06/28/arts/… via @NYTimes
“Art is long, museums are short” is the @LACMA CEO’s lame attempt to be pithy with the Latin phrase “ars longa, vita brevis” (art is long, life is short), but the unintentional irony is that this structure is shorter than planned due to value engineering.
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Come on Christopher, this building is a bust and you know it. Let’s not pull punches, we were promised a spectacular building but will get a subpar mass. @LACMA’s underground garage has a far better fit and finish than this dark, depressing anti-LA above ground tomb.
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Yet another huge piece of art by a white male. And this one will hold 50,000 live plants that’ll need tens of thousands of gallons of water annually. Ironically, this a gift from the Resnicks who are well versed in wasting our state’s water for their financial gain.
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Major @LACMA expenses (FY 2012-2023) per IRS 990s:
Construction loans: $343,000,000+
Construction:
$428,415,619
1st architect: $13,294,280
2nd architect: $50,641,460
Demolition: $7,998,126
LACMA CEO: $21,228,959
TOTAL: $864,578,444
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A delay in opening LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries; a probable public sneak peek before the art is installed; thematic exhibitions presented in gallery areas designated as “oceans;” expenditures upwards of $835 million — all that and more: latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
“[S]ources…have told me that…the budget figure being used for complete project expenses is upwards of $835 million….bigger than the publicized $750-million budget…[for] elements that are not part of the Zumthor building’s hard construction costs.”
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LACMA opening pushed to 2026; staff memo reveals plans for sneak peek inside empty new building latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Major @LACMA expenses (2012-2022) per IRS 990s:
Construction loans: $343,000,000+
Construction
$295,817,325
2nd architect:
$44,898,275
Michael Govan (salary+$1mil bonus): $19,084,894
Peter Zumthor:
$13,294,280
Demolition:
$7,998,126
TOTAL: $724,056,890
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The names of late Korean artists Lee Jung-seob and Park Soo-keun have been dragged into a scandal after several of their paintings exhibited at LACMA were branded as fakes. artnews.com/art-news/news/la…
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LACMA may have exhibited fake Korean paintings koreajoongangdaily.joins.com…
