BCAM reconsidered

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.

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