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Dia:Beacon for a Day
For today only, LACMA is displaying Walter De Maria’s 2000 Sculpture in the new Resnick Pavilion (which otherwise doesn’t open until October). The single work runs the length of Renzo Piano’s new...
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Lynda Resnick: It’s Her World, We Just Live In It
Eli Broad, move over. Lynda Resnick is not only an entrepreneur and arts patron but a Zelig-like figure hovering in the background of a disturbingly high proportion of pop- and high-culture trends of...
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Eli Broad Eat Your Heart Out: L.A.’s Wackiest Vanity Museum
Imagine a museum with 150,000 square feet of beautifully lighted, column-free exhibition space, built as a monument to one man’s stupendous ego. Imagine the critics hated it! Finally, imagine it’s not...
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L.A. or East L.A.: Who’s Got a Better Art Museum?
Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles, designed by Arquitectonica One of Tim Burton’s mentors and actors was also founder of an eponymous museum. That would be Vincent Price, star of 1950s horror...
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Is “Museum” a Stale Brand?
At least two incipient L.A. museums are avoiding the M word. “Don’t Call It a Museum” runs a headline in the Hollywood Reporter. Architect Zoltan Pali, who’s teaming with Renzo Piano to design the new...
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BCAM, the Maybach of Museums?
An article by Kriston Capps in Architect magazine looks at the cost of Peter Zumthor’s proposed redesign of LACMA, with infographics by Jessica Rubenstein. One shocker is how expensive the Broad...
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Planetarium Gobbling Death Carpet
Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali’s design for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures keeps inspiring choice turns of phrase. Internet commentators first dubbed the spheroid theater/folly the “Death Star.”...
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Should the Academy Rethink Its Museum Theater?
Zoltan Pali is out at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the result of conflict with Renzo Piano. “There were big fights in New York about the theater,” said an unnamed Academy source in the...
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Zoltan Pali Unfriends the Sphere
The Architect’s Newspaper has an interview with Zoltan Pali, the architect dismissed from his collaboration with Renzo Piano on the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Says Pali of the museum’s...
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Samurai and Starchitects
LACMA’s show of Samurai armor, opening this Sunday in the Resnick Pavilion, starts with three galloping equestrians under a Kurosawa-red “sky.” The cinematic installation, by Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY...
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L.A. Catches Up to East Lansing (or Not)
“Los Angeles is finally catching up to East Lansing,” begins a story in the Lansing State Journal. The piece refers to the Broad, understood (in East Lansing) to be a me-too response to the Eli &...
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The Petersen Shows Its Stripes
Is the new Petersen Automotive Museum (by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates) too Vegas for the Pritzker-ified Museum Mile? You can begin to judge for yourself, as most of the Petersen’s stainless steel...
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