Recently in Museums Category
This weekend my family and I went to the Los Angeles County Museum and visited the Broad Contemporary Art Museum. We had a great time -- the art is great, well selected, well edited, well installed and displayed and the exhibtion is well organized. There is a great flow -- as you walk from the early Warhols to Jeff Koons work, from there to Damian Hirst -- as you appreciate the Liechtensteins, the Rauschenbergs and the Johns and finally the wonderful Serra on the ground floor -- it is all very accessible.
At the time of BCAM's opening I was qute rough on LACMA and Broad, There were a number of things that ticked me of, and still do:
The space is called the Broad Contempary Art Museum -- not the Broad Gallery or the Broad pavillon; Broad's art is loaned not donated; by displaying his art for the first year, he is increasing its value -- the Renzo Piano architecture itself seems like a collection of ideas used more innnovatively elsewhere -- there's an outdoor esclator, like the Pompidou, and outdoor garden, like the Getty and so on. Finally BCAM was supposed to be part of a renovation of the entire LACMA campus, part of a 3 part plan over a decade -- but the truth is that it is a new building that is essentially its own campus, and the rest will come, if it all, whenever.....
HOWEVER, despite those objectitions which I still stand by, BCAM is fun, and there were crowds there on Monday, Memorial Day, when admission was free thanks to TARGET. It is in fact a great addition to our town and will no doubt draw tourists and residents alike and expose them to contemporary art.
At the time of BCAM's opening I was qute rough on LACMA and Broad, There were a number of things that ticked me of, and still do:
The space is called the Broad Contempary Art Museum -- not the Broad Gallery or the Broad pavillon; Broad's art is loaned not donated; by displaying his art for the first year, he is increasing its value -- the Renzo Piano architecture itself seems like a collection of ideas used more innnovatively elsewhere -- there's an outdoor esclator, like the Pompidou, and outdoor garden, like the Getty and so on. Finally BCAM was supposed to be part of a renovation of the entire LACMA campus, part of a 3 part plan over a decade -- but the truth is that it is a new building that is essentially its own campus, and the rest will come, if it all, whenever.....
HOWEVER, despite those objectitions which I still stand by, BCAM is fun, and there were crowds there on Monday, Memorial Day, when admission was free thanks to TARGET. It is in fact a great addition to our town and will no doubt draw tourists and residents alike and expose them to contemporary art.
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