Las Vegas Calls Dibs on LACMA Art
In 2024 Elaine Wynn and Michael Govan announced a plan for LACMA to lend its art and curatorial expertise to the upcoming Las Vegas Museum of Art. The deal drew glowing praise in Las Vegas and skepticism in L.A. ( "As bad art museum ideas go, this one is right up there," wrote Christopher Knight.) Anyone who's been to kindergarten knows it's good to share, but critics felt that the arrangement was excessive in scope and unusually one-sided. The Las Vegas museum is not a collecting institution and has nothing to lend back. A few details are now coming into focus. The Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) will open its initial space, the Grand Central Galleries, with an Impressionism show drawn from LACMA's collection . Set to open in April 2027, "A Shared Light: Monet, Impressionism, and the American Landscape" will include nearly 60 works by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Sisley, Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and others. LACMA's Shannon...
