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Blink and You Missed Him
East Coast media still can’t get L.A. museums straight (artnet news).
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A Cross-Culture Box of Secrets
LACMA’s Japanese Pavillion is showing a Kyoto lacquer box with mother-of-pearl inlaid symbols of the Freemasons. The Freemasons are a secretive men’s club that counted as members Mozart and 14 U.S....
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A Tyeb Mehta Auction Star at LACMA
LACMA is showing an important contemporary painting in its gallery of ancient Indian sculpture. Tyeb Mehta’s Mahishasura (1997) made the news in 2005, when Christie’s auctioned it for $1.58 million,...
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What Color Is Zumthor-LACMA?
The newly released renderings for Peter Zumthor’s LACMA redesign leave many questions—starting with what color the museum will be. The concrete structure is now being described as dark gray. That...
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Is Zumthor-LACMA Big Enough?
One take on Peter Zumthor’s LACMA building is that it’s too much money for not enough exhibition space. This is a common criticism of museum building projects lately, but LACMA seems to take it to an...
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Zumthor Is Still Thinking Solar
In a previous post I noted that LACMA omits mention of solar cells in a new website promoting Peter Zumthor’s planned building. The building had been pitched as capable of generating its own electric...
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Famous Monsters of Filmland
Should art museums show film? LACMA has come down on the affirmative side of the question, notwithstanding the Academy Museum being built next door. LACMA has already done a number of major film...
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Getty Seeks Brexit for a Parmigianino
The Getty Museum has announced an agreement in principle to buy Parmigianino’s Virgin with Child, St. John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene, contingent on a British export license. The luminous, 29-1/2...
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A Border Wall Built for One
Surrealism was a literary movement before it was an artistic one. In truth it wasn’t much of a literary movement. Few Surrealist texts are much read today, and one of the best-known isn’t even...
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“Alternative Dreams” at LACMA
Bay Area attorney and gallerist Jung Ying Tsao (1929-2011) dealt mainly in 20th-century Chinese art. Few knew he was assembling a major personal collection of 17th-century painting. Few knew that his...
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