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Established 1910[ane] [two]
Location 5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
United States
Coordinates 34°03′46″N 118°21′28″Westward  /  34.062895°Due north 118.357837°W  / 34.062895; -118.357837 Coordinates: 34°03′46″N 118°21′28″West  /  34.062895°N 118.357837°W  / 34.062895; -118.357837
Blazon Encyclopedic, Fine art museum
Visitors 1,592,101 (2016)[3]
Managing director Michael Govan
Architect William Pereira (1965)
Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (1986)
Bruce Goff (1988)
Public transit admission Bus: xx, 217, 720 or 780 to Wilshire Bl and Fairfax Av Future Rail: Wilshire/Fairfax (service to begin in approximately 2023)
Website world wide web.lacma.org

The Los Angeles Canton Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Phenomenon Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum).

LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Fine art. Four years later, information technology moved to the Wilshire Boulevard circuitous designed by William Pereira. The museum's wealth and collections grew in the 1980s, and it added several buildings beginning in that decade and continuing in subsequent decades. In 2020, four buildings on the campus were demolished to make way for a reconstructed facility designed by Peter Zumthor. His design drew potent community opposition and was lambasted by architectural critics and museum curators, who objected to its reduced gallery space, poor design, and exorbitant costs.[four] [5] [6]

LACMA is the largest art museum in the western U.s.a.. It attracts nearly a million visitors annually.[seven] It holds more than 150,000 works spanning the history of art from aboriginal times to the nowadays. In addition to fine art exhibits, the museum features movie and concert series.

History [edit]

Early years [edit]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a museum in 1961. Prior to this, LACMA was part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Fine art, founded in 1910 in Exposition Park most the University of Southern California. Howard F. Ahmanson, Sr., Anna Bing Arnold and Bart Lytton were the first principal patrons of the museum. Ahmanson made the lead donation of $2 1000000, convincing the museum board that sufficient funds could be raised to establish the new museum. In 1965 the museum moved to a new Wilshire Boulevard circuitous as an independent, fine art-focused establishment, the largest new museum to exist built in the United States afterward the National Gallery of Art.

William Pereira Buildings [edit]

The museum, congenital in a style similar to Lincoln Center and the Los Angeles Music Center, consisted of three buildings: the Ahmanson Edifice, the Bing Center, and the Lytton Gallery (renamed the Frances and Armand Hammer Edifice in 1968). The board selected LA architect William Pereira over the directors' recommendation of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the buildings.[8] According to a 1965 Los Angeles Times story, the total price of the three buildings was $11.five million.[9] Construction began in 1963, and was undertaken past the Del E. Webb Corporation. Structure was completed in early 1965.[10] At the time, the Los Angeles Music Center and LACMA were concurrent big civic projects which vied for attention and donors in Los Angeles. When the museum opened, the buildings were surrounded past reflecting pools, but they were filled in and covered over when tar from the adjacent La Brea Tar Pits began seeping in.[9]

1980s [edit]

Money poured into LACMA during the nail years of the 1980s, a reportedly $209 million in private donations during manager Earl Powell's tenure.[12] To house its growing collections of modern and contemporary art and to provide more than infinite for exhibitions, the museum hired the architectural firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates to blueprint its $35.three-million,[thirteen] 115,000-square-human foot Robert O. Anderson Building for 20th-century fine art, which opened in 1986 (renamed the Art of the Americas Edifice in 2007). In the far-reaching expansion, museum-goers henceforth entered through the new partially roofed fundamental court, nearly an acre of space bounded past the museum's four buildings.[14]

The museum's Pavilion for Japanese Art, designed past maverick architect Bruce Goff, opened in 1988, as did the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden of Rodin bronzes.

In 1999, the Hancock Park Improvement Projection was complete, and the LACMA-adjacent park (designed by landscape builder Laurie Olin) was inaugurated with a free public celebration. The $ten-one thousand thousand renovation replaced dead trees and bare earth with picnic facilities, walkways, viewing sites for the La Brea tar pits and a 150-seat red granite amphitheater designed by artist Jackie Ferrara.[xv]

Also in 1994, LACMA purchased the next onetime May Visitor department store building, an impressive example of streamline moderne architecture designed past Albert C. Martin Sr. LACMA W increased the museum's size by 30 percent when the edifice opened in 1998.[sixteen]

Renzo Pianoforte Buildings [edit]

In 2004 LACMA's Board of Trustees unanimously approved a programme for LACMA's transformation past builder Rem Koolhaas, who had proposed razing all the electric current buildings and constructing an entirely new single, tent-topped structure,[17] [xviii] estimated to cost $200 million to $300 million.[19] Kohlhaas edged out French architect Jean Nouvel, who would accept added a major edifice while renovating the older facilities.[20] The list of candidates had previously narrowed to five in May 2001: Koolhaas, Nouvel, Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind and Thom Mayne.[20]

However, the project soon stalled after the museum failed to secure funding.[21] In 2004 LACMA's Lath of Trustees unanimously canonical plans to transform the museum, led past architect Renzo Pianoforte. The planned transformation consisted of three phases.

Phase I started in 2004 and was completed in February 2008. The renovations required demolishing the parking structure on Ogden Avenue and with it LACMA-commissioned graffiti art by street artists Margaret Kilgallen and Barry McGee.[22] The entry pavilion is a cardinal point in architect Renzo Piano's plan to unify LACMA'due south sprawling, ofttimes disruptive layout of buildings. The BP Grand Entrance and the side by side Broad Gimmicky Art Museum (BCAM) contain the $191 million (originally $150 million) starting time phase of the three-part expansion and renovation campaign. BCAM is named for Eli and Edy Broad, who gave $60 meg to LACMA's campaign; Eli Broad also serves on LACMA'due south board of directors.[23] BCAM opened on February 16, 2008, adding 58,000 foursquare feet (five,400 chiliad2) of exhibition space to the museum. In 2010 the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion opened to the public, providing the largest purpose-congenital, naturally lit, open-program museum space in the world.

The second phase was intended to plow the May building into new offices and galleries, designed by SPF Architects. Equally proposed, information technology would take had flexible gallery space, teaching infinite, authoritative offices, a new restaurant, a souvenir shop and a bookstore, as well as study centers for the museum'south departments of costume and textiles, photography and prints and drawings, and a roof sculpture garden with two works by James Turrell. Nevertheless, construction of this stage was halted in November 2010.[24] Stage two and 3 were never completed.

In Oct 2011, LACMA entered into an understanding with the University of Picture show Arts and Sciences nether which the University will constitute its Academy Museum of Motility Pictures, in the May edifice. The redesign and additions are designed by Renzo Pianoforte as well.[25] Structure of the renovated building is ongoing and the Academy Museum is set to open by 2021. The Grand opening was delayed past COVID-19.[26]

Watts Towers [edit]

In 2010 LACMA partnered with the City of Los Angeles Cultural Diplomacy Department in an effort to ensure the preservation of the Watts Towers, offer its staff, expertise, and fundraising assist.[27] As of 2018, LACMA is working with Los Angeles County to develop a site at the Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park, which is close to Watts Towers.[28]

South Los Angeles Wetlands Park site [edit]

In 2018, LACMA secure a 35-year lease on an 80,000-square-human foot, city-owned former Metro maintenance and storage thousand from 1911 in the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park area.[28] In 2020, information technology was reported that LACMA was in violation of the terms of its no-rent 35-year lease for the site.[29]

Zumthor proposal [edit]

Specifics well-nigh the third stage, which initially was to involve renovations to older buildings, long remained undisclosed.[24] In November 2009, plans were fabricated public that LACMA's director Michael Govan was working with Swiss architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Peter Zumthor on plans for rebuilding the eastern department of the campus, the Perreira Buildings between the two new Renzo Piano buildings and the tar pits.[18] [thirty] Compages firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill collaborated with Zumthor on the building'due south pattern.[31] With an estimated cost of $650 1000000,[32] Zumthor'southward first proposal called for a horizontal building along Wilshire Boulevard. Information technology would accept been wrapped in glass on all sides and its principal galleries lifted ane floor into the air. The wide roof would take been covered with solar panels.[33] In a afterward concession to concerns raised past its neighbor, the Folio Museum, LACMA had Zumthor alter the shape of his proposed building to stretch across Wilshire Boulevard and away from the La Brea Tar Pits.[32] [34]

In June 2014, the Los Angeles County Lath of Supervisors approved $5 meg for LACMA to continue its proposed plans to tear down the structures on the east end of its campus for a single museum edifice.[35] Later on that twelvemonth, they canonical in concept a plan that would provide public financing and $125 one thousand thousand toward the $600-million project.[36]

On April 8, 2019, the Zumthor-designed building was approved by the Los Angeles County Lath of Supervisors. The final approved building designed was scaled back from the original 387,500 foursquare feet (36,000 mtwo) to 347,500 square feet (32,280 m2), with gallery space shrinking from 121,000 foursquare feet (11,200 m2) to 110,000 square feet (x,000 k2). The new proposal also dropped the black form aesthetics, reducing it to a ane-level, aboveground, glass-enclosed, sand-colored concrete building, to save costs. The design withal calls for an arm above Wilshire Boulevard.[37] [38]

Other than necessary mechanical systems and bathrooms, the edifice's entire second story will exist devoted to gallery infinite.[31] Arranged in four broad clusters around the building, each ane of the twenty-six cadre galleries is designed in the form of a square or a rectangle at various scales.[31] Other services, among them the museum'due south didactics department, shop and three restaurants, will be at ground level, equally will a 300-seat theater in the section of the building on the southern side of Wilshire Boulevard.[31]

The total cost was estimated to exist at $650 million, with LA county providing $125 million in funds and the rest raised by fundraising. Per reports LACMA has raised $560 million full since December 2018.[39] The re-designed final building was criticized by some local architects, including the Los Angeles Times editorial architect Christopher Knight, calling the plans "half baked".[40] Los Angeles City owns air rights in a higher place Wilshire, then the city council must requite approval to the project, since role of the structure goes over the street.

Demolition of the Pereira buildings began in April 2020. The demolition was completed in October of that same twelvemonth.[41] In the meantime, the Zumthor building opening has been pushed back to 2024.[42]

Exhibitions [edit]

In 1971, curator Maurice Tuchman's revolutionary "Art and Applied science" exhibit opened at LACMA after its debut at the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Nippon.[43] The museum staged its first exhibition by contemporary black artists later that year, featuring Charles Wilbert White, Timothy Washington and David Hammons, then piddling known.[44] The museum'south all-time-attended prove ever was "Treasures of Tutankhamun", which drew 1.two million during four months in 1978. The 2005 "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" drew 937,613 during its 137-twenty-four hour period run. A bear witness of Vincent van Gogh masterpieces from the creative person's eponymous Amsterdam museum is the third well-nigh successful show, and a 1984 exhibition of French Impressionist works is fourth.[45] In 1994, "Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Therese Walter and Dora Maar" opened to rave reviews and large crowds, drawing more than 153,000 visitors.[46]

Since the arrival of electric current managing director Michael Govan, well-nigh 80% of merely over 100 featured temporary exhibitions have been of Modern or contemporary fine art while the permanent exhibitions characteristic work dating from antiquity, including pre-Columbian, Assyrian and Egyptian art through contemporary art.[47]

More recent exhibits, focusing on popular culture and entertainment, have also been well-received, both by critics and patrons. Exhibits devoted to the works of motion picture-directors Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick drew especially positive reactions and responses.[48]

Collections [edit]

LACMA's more than than 120,000 objects are divided among its numerous departments by region, media, and time menstruum and are spread amongst the various museum buildings.[49]

Modern and Contemporary Art [edit]

The Modernistic Art drove is displayed in the Ahmanson Building, which was renovated in 2008 to take a new entrance featuring a large staircase, conceived as a gathering place like to Rome's Spanish Steps. Filling the atrium at the base of the staircase is Tony Smith'southward massive sculpture Smoke (1967).[50] The plaza level galleries likewise business firm African art and a gallery highlighting the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German language Expressionist Studies.

The mod drove on the plaza level displays works from 1900 to the 1970s, largely populated by the Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. In December 2007, Janice and Henri Lazarof gave LACMA 130 mostly modernist works estimated to be worth more than $100 million.[51] The collection includes 20 works past Picasso, watercolors and paintings by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky and a considerable number of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brâncuși, Henry Moore, Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró, Louise Nevelson, Archipenko, and Arp.[52] [53]

Gallery of works by Alberto Giacometti

The Gimmicky Art collection is displayed in the sixty,000-square-foot (5,600 k2) Broad Gimmicky Art Museum (BCAM), opened on February 16, 2008. BCAM's inaugural exhibition featured 176 works past 28 artists of postwar Modern art from the late 1950s to the nowadays. All but 30 of the works initially displayed came from the collection of Eli and Edythe Broad (pronounced "brode").[54] Long-fourth dimension trustee Robert Halff had already donated 53 works of contemporary art in 1994. Components of that gift included Joan Miró, Jasper Johns, Sam Francis, Frank Stella, Lari Pittman, Chris Burden, Richard Serra, John Chamberlain, Matthew Barney, and Jeff Koons. It too provided LACMA with its commencement drawings by Claes Oldenburg and Cy Twombly.[55]

Dorsum Seat Dodge '38 (1964), past Edward Kienholz, is a sculpture portraying a couple engaged in sexual activity in the back seat of a truncated 1938 Dodge auto chassis. The piece won Kienholz instant glory in 1966 when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors tried to ban the sculpture as pornographic and threatened to withhold financing from LACMA if information technology included the work in a Kienholz retrospective. A compromise was reached under which the sculpture'southward car door would remain airtight and guarded, to exist opened only on the request of a museum patron who was over xviii, and but if no children were nowadays in the gallery. The uproar led to more than 200 people lining up to see the piece of work the solar day the show opened. Ever since, Back Seat Dodge '38 has drawn crowds.[56]

American and Latin American fine art [edit]

The Art of the Americas Building has American, Latin American, and pre-Columbian collections displayed on the 2d floor and temporary exhibition space on the first floor. Formerly known as the Anderson Building, the Art of the Americas Building comprises galleries for art from North, Key, and South America.[57]

LACMA's Latin American Art galleries reopened in July 2008 after several years renovation. The Latin American drove includes pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, Modern, and contemporary works. Many recent additions to the collection were financed by sales of works from an one,800 piece holding of 20th century Mexican art compiled by dealer-collectors Bernard and Edith Lewin and given to the museum in 1997.[58]

The pre-Columbian galleries were redesigned by Jorge Pardo, a Los Angeles artist who works in sculpture, design, and compages.[58] Pardo's brandish cases are built from thick, stacked sheets of medium-density fiberboard (MDF), with spacing of equal thickness in between the lxx-plus layers. The laser-cutting organic forms undulate and swell out from the walls, sharply contrasting to the rectangular display cases constitute in near fine art museums.[59]

The museum's pre-Columbian collection began in the 1980s with the first installment of a 570-piece gift from Southern California collector Constance McCormick Fearing and the purchase of about 200 pieces from L.A. businessman Proctor Stafford. The holdings recently jumped from most one,800 to 2,500 objects with a gift of Colombian ceramics from Camilla Chandler Frost, a LACMA trustee and the sister of Otis Chandler, former Los Angeles Times publisher, and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer of Atlanta, whose family built the collection.[58] A sizable portion of LACMA's pre-Columbian drove was excavated from burial chambers in Colima, Nayarit and other regions effectually Jalisco in modern-day Mexico.[59] LACMA boasts one of the largest collections of Latin American art due to the generous donation of more than than 2,000 works of fine art by Bernard Lewin and his wife Edith Lewin in 1996. In 2007 the museum signed an agreement with the Fundación Cisneros for a loan of 25 colonial-way works, later extended until 2017.[57]

The Spanish Colonial collection includes piece of work from 17th and 18th century Mexican artists Miguel Cabrera, José de Ibarra, José de Páez, and Nicolás Rodriguez Juárez. The drove has galleries for Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo. The Latin American contemporary gallery highlights works Francis Alÿs.[59]

Asian fine art [edit]

The Hammer Building houses the Chinese and Korean collections.[fifty] The Korean fine art collection began with the donation of a group of Korean ceramics in 1966 by Bak Jeonghui, then president of the Democracy of Korea, later a visit to the museum. LACMA today claims to have the most comprehensive holding outside of Korea and Japan.[60] The Pavilion for Japanese Art displays the Shin'enkan collection donated by Joe D. Price. In 1999 LACMA trustee Eric Lidow and his wife, Leza, donated 75 ancient Chinese works valued at a total of $3.5 million, including of import statuary objects and prime examples of Buddhist sculpture.[61] LACMA also has a rich collection of relics from India, mostly consisting of sculptures of Jain Tirthankaras, Buddha and Hindu deities. Many Paintings from India are also present in the LACMA.

Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art [edit]

The second floor of the Ahmanson Building has Greek and Roman Art galleries. A large portion of the museum's ancient Greek and Roman fine art collection was donated past William Randolph Hearst, the publishing magnate, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Islamic art [edit]

The museum's Islamic galleries include over 1700 works from ceramics and inlaid metalwork to enameled drinking glass, carved stone and wood, and arts of the book from manuscript illumination to Islamic calligraphy. The drove is especially strong in Persian and Turkish glazed pottery and tiles, drinking glass, and arts of the volume. The collection began in hostage in 1973 when the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection was gifted to the museum past philanthropist Joan Palevsky.[62]

Decorative arts and design [edit]

In 1990 Max Palevsky gave 32 pieces of Arts and crafts article of furniture to LACMA ; three years later, he added an additional 42 pieces to his souvenir. In 2000, he donated $two million to LACMA for Arts and Crafts works. He supplied about a third of the 300 objects displayed in a 2004–05 LACMA exhibit, "The Craft Movement in Europe and America: 1880–1920" and in 2009, the museum presented "The Craft Movement: Masterworks From the Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans Drove".[63] With a single acquisition in 2009, LACMA became a major center for the study and display of 18th- and 19th-century European clothing when it bought the holdings of dealers Martin Kamer of London and Wolfgang Ruf of Beckenried, Switzerland—nearly 250 outfits and 300 accessories created between 1700 and 1915, including men's three-slice suits, women'due south dresses, children'southward garb, and a vast array of shoes, hats, purses, shawls, fans, and undergarments.[64]

Permanent art installations [edit]

Los Angeles sculptor Robert Graham created the towering, bronze Retrospective Cavalcade (1981, cast in 1986) for the entrance of the Art of the Americas Building. A new contemporary sculpture garden was opened directly east of the museum'south Wilshire Boulevard archway in 1991, including large-scale outdoor sculptures by Alice Aycock, Ellsworth Kelly, Henry Moore, and others. The centerpiece of the garden is Alexander Calder's three-piece mobile Howdy Girls, commissioned by a women'south museum-back up group for the museum's opening in 1965. Situated in a curving reflecting pool, the mobile has brightly colored paddles that are moved by jets of water.[65] [66]

The Ahmanson Edifice's atrium was remodeled to hold Tony Smith'due south Smoke, which had not been displayed since its original 1967 presentation at Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art. The massive blackness painted aluminum artwork is fabricated up of 43 piers and is 45 ft (fourteen m) long, 33 ft (10 m) broad, and 22 ft (6.7 m) high. The newly fabricated work was initially on loan from the creative person's estate,[67] but in 2010, afterwards several months of intense fundraising efforts, "the museum caused the work for an undisclosed amount reported to exceed $3 million and [with an insurance valuation of] 'over $5 million.'"[68] The purchase was "made possible past The Belldegrun Family's gift to LACMA in laurels of Rebecka Belldegrun's birthday", per the museum.[69]

Eli and Edythe Broad contributed $10 meg to fund the buy of Richard Serra'south Ring sculpture, on display on the first floor of BCAM when the building opened.[54] [seventy]

Surrounding the BCAM building and LACMA's courtyard is a 100 palm tree garden, designed by creative person Robert Irwin and mural architect Paul Comstock. Some of the 30 varieties of palms are in the ground, just most are in large wooden boxes above basis.[71] [72] Direct in front of the new entrance to LACMA on Wilshire Boulevard, where Ogden Drive once bisected the twenty-acre campus between Wilshire Boulevard and 6th Street, is Chris Brunt's Urban Low-cal (2008), an orderly, multi-tiered installation of 202 antique cast-fe street lights from diverse cities in and around the Los Angeles expanse. The street lights are functional, plough on in the evening, and are powered by solar panels on the roof of the BP Grand Entrance.

Originally Jeff Koons' Tulips (1995–2004) sculpture was inside the G Entrance building and Charles Ray'due south Burn down Truck (1993) was outside in the courtyard, both lent by the Wide Art Foundation. Both sculptures were removed later beingness on display for iii months due to unexpected damage from patrons and wear.[73]

On Feb 2, 2007, Michael Govan, with Koons, revealed plans for a 161-pes (49 one thousand)-tall Koons sculpture featuring an operational 1940s locomotive suspended from a crane. The sculpture would be located at the entrance on Wilshire Boulevard, betwixt the Ahmanson Building and the Wide Contemporary Fine art Museum.[74] [75] By 2011, after "the fundraising climate soured and Koons' California fabricator, Carlson & Co, went out of business after completing a $ii.3-million feasibility written report"[76] and a $25 million estimated cost, Govan said "We don't take a terminal method of construction, and I don't have a last fundraising programme."[77] Koons said they are now working with the German fabricator Arnold, outside of Frankfurt, to do an additional engineering written report, and Govan says he has committed to spending one-half a meg dollars for that written report.[76] The museum has J.B. Turner Engine (1986), a small Koons piece which was shown in the 2006–2007 "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibition.[78]

Levitated Mass past creative person Michael Heizer is the latest project at LACMA. On December 8, 2011, this 340-ton boulder, 21.5 feet (6.6 m) wide and 21.5 anxiety (6.6 m) in height, was ready to leave its quarry in Riverside County, after months of postponements.[79] It sits atop the 456-foot-long trench which allows people to walk under and around the massive rock. The motility started on February 28, 2012, and completed on March 10, 2012. The art piece was opened on June 24, 2012, by Heizer, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, and Los Angeles Metropolis Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.[80]

Photography [edit]

The Wallis Annenberg Photography Department was launched in 1984 with a grant from the Ralph G. Parsons Foundation. It has holdings of more xv thousand works that span the flow from the medium's invention in 1839 to the present. Photography as well is integrated into other departments. Although LACMA'due south photograph drove encompasses the entire field, it has many gaps and is far smaller than that of the J. Paul Getty Museum.[81] In 1992 Audrey and Sydney Irmas donated their entire photography drove, creating what is now the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine art's Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection of Artists' Self-Portraits, a big and highly specialized option spanning 150 years. The couple donated the drove two years before a major exhibition of the collection was mounted at LACMA; the display included photos of and by artistic photographers ranging from chemist Alphonse Poitevin in 1853 to Robert Mapplethorpe in 1988. Among other self-portraits in the drove were those of Andy Warhol, Lee Friedlander, and Edward Steichen.[82] Audrey Irmas continues to buy for the collection, simply now all the additions are gifts to LACMA.[83] In 2008 LACMA announced that the Annenberg Foundation was making a $23 meg gift for the acquisition of the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon collection of 19th- and 20th-century photographs. Among the iii,500 main prints are works by Steichen, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Eugène Atget, Imogen Cunningham, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Ave Pildas[84] and Man Ray. The souvenir likewise provided an endowment and upper-case letter to help build storage facilities for the museum's photographic holdings, leading to its photography department being renamed the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography.[85] In 2011 LACMA and the J. Paul Getty Trust jointly acquired Robert Mapplethorpe'due south art and archival material, including more than 2,000 works by the creative person.[86]

Film [edit]

LACMA's film program was founded by Phil Chamberlin in the late 1960s.[87] In 2009 LACMA announced plans to cancel its 41-year-old picture show series, citing failing attendance and funding. The conclusion drew widespread criticism from cinephiles, including film director Martin Scorsese, who wrote an open protestation alphabetic character that was published in the Los Angeles Times. In response, the museum expanded its picture show offerings and partnered with Motion picture Contained to launch a new serial. In 2011 LACMA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced partnership plans to open a movie museum within iii years in the sometime May Co. building.[88]

Acquisitions and donors [edit]

Individual donors [edit]

In 2014, LACMA received a $500 1000000 donation of art from businessman Jerry Perenchio. The 47-piece collection contains works by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, René Magritte, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso. LACMA executive director Michael Govan said information technology was the biggest gift in the museum'south history, and The Washington Post called it "conceivably one of the greatest fine art gifts ever, to any museum".[89] Perenchio's donation, which becomes constructive upon his death, occurs only if the museum completes structure of the new building designed by Peter Zumthor.[89]

The $54 one thousand thousand Resnick Pavillon was made possible by a $45 million souvenir from the philanthropists for whom it is named.[90] On March six, 2007, BP appear a $25 meg donation to name the entry pavilion nether construction as part of LACMA's renovation campaign the "BP Grand Entrance". The $25 million gift matches Walt Disney Co.'southward 1997 souvenir for Disney Hall as the biggest corporate donation to the arts in Southern California. Previously, in 2006, LACMA had announced that the new entrance would be called the "Lynda and Stewart Resnick Grand Entrance Pavilion", in honor of their $25 meg gift.

An 18th-century painting of Hindu goddesses Matrikas fighting demons, from LACMA.

Lime Spoon with cast picaflor, 1250–1470, Peru, Inca.
Purchased with funds provided past Lillian Apodaca Weiner (G.2003.77)

On January 8, 2008, Eli Broad revealed plans to retain permanent command of his roughly 2,000 works of modern and contemporary art in the independent Broad Art Foundation, which loans works to museums, rather than giving the art away. Broad, as recently as a year prior, had said that he planned to give virtually of his holdings to one or several museums, one of which was assumed to be LACMA. All the same, LACMA remains the "preferred" museum to receive works from the Foundation.[91]

Broad, previously vice chairman of LACMA's board of directors, financed the $56-million Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) building at LACMA; he besides provided an additional $x million to buy two works of art to be displayed in information technology. BCAM displayed 220 pieces borrowed from Broad and his Wide Fine art Foundation when it opened in February 2008. In 2001 LACMA was criticized for hosting a major exhibition of Wide's drove without having secured a promised gift of the works, an human activity that is prohibited at many prominent art institutions because it can increase the market value of the drove.[51]

In 2002 the Annenberg Foundation gave the museum $10 meg to found a special endowment fund to back up exhibitions, art acquisitions and educational programs at the discretion of its director. In recognition of the souvenir, LACMA named its leadership position the Wallis Annenberg directorship. In 2001 Wallis Annenberg endowed a curatorial fellowship plan with a $1-meg gift. In 1991, the foundation contributed $10 meg to LACMA'due south endowment and in 1999 it donated $100,000 to provide arts instruction grooming for Los Angeles elementary school teachers.[nineteen]

In 2001 the museum lost out on the modern fine art collection of Nathan and Marian Smooke, a former museum trustee and industrial real-estate developer whose heirs sold much of his collection at auction rather than donating it.[92] [93]

In 1996 the museum suffered notwithstanding some other serious blow when the Gilbert Collection of Italian mosaics and other decorative objects, promised equally an eventual heritance, and parts of which had been on display for decades, was withdrawn. The would-be donor claimed that the Museum had reneged on a written understanding to provide more exhibit space for information technology.[94] [95] The collection is considered 1 of the finest in the world of its kind. Moreover, unlike the Hammer and Simon collections, it did not remain in the Los Angeles surface area but was removed to the United Kingdom.

Armand Hammer was a LACMA board fellow member for nearly seventeen years, beginning in 1968, and during this time continued to announce the museum would inherit his whole collection. Hammer'due south collection included works from Van Gogh, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Gustave Moreau, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne. When LACMA was offered a collection of works by Honoré Daumier, Hammer bought the works on the promise that he would give them to the museum. To LACMA's surprise, Hammer instead founded the Hammer Museum, congenital side by side to Occidental's headquarters in Los Angeles.[96]

Between 1972 and 2020, the Ahmanson Foundation spent virtually $130 million to finance the museum's acquisitions of 99 artworks, including masterpieces like Magdalene with the Smoking Flame by Georges de La Bout, others past Rembrandt, Watteau and Bernini, and a suite of 42 French oil sketches. The donations were non made with any contractual stipulations that the works remain on view.[97] In 2020, the foundation suspended the conquering programme.[97]

In the early 1970s Norton Simon, the chairman of Norton Simon, Inc., which endemic Avis Car Rental, Chase's Foods, Max Factor Cosmetics, Canada Dry Corp., and McCall's Publishing, among other interests, agreed to have the financial responsibleness of the troubled Pasadena Museum of Art. Norton Simon Museum He after donated his all-encompassing drove to the new entity, now the Norton Simon Museum of Art. He had earlier made some indication of altruistic the work to LACMA.[51] [91]

From 1946 to his decease in 1951, William Randolph Hearst was LACMA's largest benefactor. He remains the largest donor to the museum in number of objects. His donations formed the museum'south collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, medieval and early Renaissance sculptures, and much of the drove of European decorative arts.[8]

Art councils [edit]

Over the course of the LACMA's history, x fine art councils—each supporting a specific area of the drove—have acquired or helped acquire nearly v,000 works of art for the museum. The art councils contain groups of art enthusiasts and professionals who pay a minimum of $400 a yr in dues and organize projects to raise money for a favorite section.[98] Founded in 1952, the Art Museum Council is LACMA's showtime volunteer support council and supports the whole of the museum's endeavors. The Modern and Gimmicky Art Council, founded in 1961, is the longest-running support group for contemporary fine art at any museum in the country.[99] In 1986 the Annual Collectors Commission weekends were started and have raised a total of $xvi million for the purchase of 157 works, valued at $75 1000000.[100] The Photographic Arts Council, founded in 2001, is the youngest of ten ten support groups, offer its members visits to artists' studios and private collections, curator-led tours of exhibitions and lectures about the intendance and conservation of photographs.[101]

Collectors Committee [edit]

Each year a distinguished group of donors contributes directly to the enrichment of LACMA'due south permanent collection through participation in the Collectors Committee, creating a fund to spend on art through purchasing tickets ranging betwixt $15,000 and $60,000[102] for the event.[103] Once a year, the Collectors Committee members meet at the museum to hear acquisition proposals from the diverse curators. Each curator has roughly v minutes to plead their case to the patrons, who vote subsequently that mean solar day at a black-tie gala upshot at the museum on which artworks should go the side by side acquisitions for the permanent drove.[102] The 2012 gala raised more than $2.viii million.[104] Since its inception in 1986, the consequence has brought some 170 works of art into the museum's collection.[105]

LACMA Art + Moving picture Gala [edit]

The museum puts on an annual gala dinner, inaugurated in 2011 featuring amusement by international artists and hosted by national entertainers such as Angeleno Leonardo Di Caprio (2012). The annual result, the Art + Film Gala, is designed to help the museum shore upward support from Hollywood leaders. Gala prices range from $v,000 for an individual gold ticket to $100,000 for a platinum table.[106] The 2018 gala raised approximately $4.v meg for the museum's operations and collections,[107] upwards from $iv.one million in 2013[108] and simply under $iii million in 2011.[109]

Gala honorees take included Betye Saar and Alfonso Cuaron in 2019,[110] Catherine Opie and Guillermo del Toro in 2018;[107] Marking Bradford and George Lucas in 2017;[111] Kathryn Bigelow and Robert Irwin in 2016;[112] Alejandro González Iñárritu and James Turrell in 2015;[113] Barbara Kruger and Quentin Tarantino in 2014; Martin Scorsese and David Hockney in 2013; the late Stanley Kubrick and Ed Ruscha in 2012; and Clint Eastwood and John Baldessari in 2011.[114]

Deaccessioning [edit]

Along with other museums that take consigned works to auction in the past, LACMA has been sharply criticized for pruning its fine art holdings.[115] In 2005, on the occasion of the expansion, reorganization and reinstallation of its collection in 2007, LACMA auctioned 43 works at Sotheby's. The works sold included paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Camille Pissarro and Max Beckmann, sculptures past Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore, and works on newspaper by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Edgar Degas.[116] The biggest auction of works by the museum since the early 1980s, it was expected to fetch $x.four one thousand thousand to $15.4 million; it eventually resulted in a total of $13 million.[115] Among the most valuable was a Modigliani portrait of the Spanish landscape painter Manuel Humbert, which sold for $iv.9 million.[117]

Programs [edit]

In 1966 Maurice Tuchman, then curator of modernistic art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, introduced the Art and Technology (A&T) program. Inside the programme, artists like Robert Irwin and James Turrell were placed, for example, at the Garrett Corporation, to comport research into perception.[118] The program yielded an exhibition that ran at LACMA and traveled to Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.[119] It also contributed to the evolution of the Low-cal and Space movement.

Management [edit]

Funding [edit]

Andrea Rich won praise for doubling the museum'south endowment, to more than $100 million, and for increasing attendance and pursuing programs and acquisitions that might appeal to the varied segments of the city's diverse population, similar Islamic, Latin American and Korean art.[120] Rich resigned in part because of disputes with Eli Broad, including one over hiring a curator for the new Wide gimmicky art heart.[121] In 2008, LACMA made a formal offer to merge with MOCA and to assistance that museum heighten new money from donors.[122]

Per the Los Angeles Canton Lawmaking and diverse operating agreements, Museum Associates, a nonprofit public benefit corporation organized under the laws of the land of California, manages, operates, and maintains the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2011, LACMA reported internet assets (basically, a total of all the resource it has on its books, except the value of the art) of $300 1000000.[123] That year, the museum's endowment grew from $99.half dozen million to $106.8 one thousand thousand.[124] By issuing $383 one thousand thousand in revenue enhancement-free construction bonds,[125] the museum paid for its ongoing expansion and renovation, which has yielded the new Wide Contemporary Art Museum and the Resnick Exhibition Pavilion as well as other improvements. The Los Angeles County provides around $29 one thousand thousand a year,[35] roofing more than than a third of the museum's operating expenses.[126]

LACMA typically raises around $40 million from donations and membership dues, which are accounted for every bit gifts, paying for near one-half of LACMA's average expenses of nearly $92 one thousand thousand.[127]

Omnipresence [edit]

Although omnipresence has grown in recent years, it still remained at 914,356 visitors in 2010.[128] In 2011, around 1.2 meg visitors went to LACMA, making it the beginning time the museum broke the 1 meg mark.[129] In 2015, attendance reached ane.6 million.[130]

Directors [edit]

  • Dr. Richard (Ric) F. Dark-brown – 1961 – 1966[8]
  • Kenneth Donahue 1966 – 1979
  • Earl A. Powell Iii – 1980 – 1992
  • Michael East. Shapiro – 1992 – 1993
  • Betwixt 1993 and 1995, Chief Deputy Director Ronald B. Bratton was handling financial and administrative activities and Stephanie Barron, principal curator of modernistic and contemporary fine art, was analogous curatorial diplomacy.[131]
  • Graham W. J. Beal – 1996 – 1999
  • Andrea L. Rich – 1999 – 2005
  • Michael Govan – 2006–nowadays

In 1996, LACMA's board of trustees decided that the traditional dual part of managing director as main administrator/artistic director should be split up, and appointed Andrea Rich equally president and chief executive officer of the museum, while Graham Westward. J. Beal ran its artistic programs.[132] As office of a 2005 restructuring, the president position was once more made the second-ranking chore in the institution.[133]

LACMA provides a home to the director. From that purpose, it has owned a v,100 sq ft (470 m2) Hancock Park property since 2006.[134] In 2020, Museum Associates acquired a 3,300 sq ft (310 m2) house on a 7,800 sq ft (720 m2) lot in Mid-Wilshire for $2.ii 1000000.[135]

Board of trustees [edit]

LACMA is governed past a board of trustees which sets policy and determines the museum's strategic direction. Board membership is one of the few concrete ways to measure philanthropy in the museum world. LACMA costs $100,000 to join; each lath member commits to donating or raising at least another $100,000 a year for the nonprofit museum.[136] The museum currently has over 50 agile board members; 30 of them accept joined since 2006, including Barbra Streisand, songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, collector Dasha Zhukova, Television receiver journalist Willow Bay, producer Brian Grazer, Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Michael Lynton, and Boob tube presenter Ryan Seacrest.[137] [138] Since 2015, the lath has been co-chaired by Elaine Wynn and Tony Ressler.[139]

Notably, Tom Gores stepped downwards from his post as a board trustee in 2020, afterwards advocacy groups Worth Rises and Color of Change had chosen for his removal over his investment in Securus Technologies.[140]

Selected paintings [edit]

Selected objects [edit]

See also [edit]

  • La Brea Tar Pits, next door to Los Angeles Canton Museum of Art

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • LACMA'south permanent collection: Access to more than than 80,000 works of fine art from the museum's permanent collection. Via this website, the museum too enables users to download and utilise, without any restrictions, high quality images of nearly 20,000 works of art they deem to be in the public domain.

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