The Broad Is America's Most Popular Contemporary Museum
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| Untitled Fred Eversley sculpture in "Soul of a Nation" (2019) at the Broad |
Only about 30 percent of Broad visitors are tourists, versus 70 percent for the Whitney and 73 percent for MoMA. Allowing for that, the Broad was drawing about twice the number of local visitors as were the Whitney or Guggenheim.
The most visited contemporary-only museum in the world is said to be the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, which has been regularly topping a million visitors a year.
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Oh, by the way, I saw Carolina Miranda's article today.
F--k Michael Govan.
At a USC talk last year, Govan showed a slide with a preliminary gallery plan. Archinect took a picture and and wrote an article about the talk:
https://archinect.com/features/article/150156587/with-peter-zumthor-s-lacma-in-the-home-stretch-is-los-angeles-entering-its-post-rational-phase
It's ridiculous to see what passes for arts coverage at the LA Times. The city, the museums, the galleries, and the artists deserve better. Most of what Miranda and Knight write would not stand up to academic scrutiny or even the scrutiny of their peers at the NY Times. But it is not like the Save-LACMA mob knows any better.
The Save-LACMA mob should make hats and hold a rally with Trump.
The Trump mob and the Save-LACMA mob have a lot in common.
Make LACMA great again.
RIP, LACMA.
Oh, and once again -- and pardon my French -- but f--k Michael Govan.
The jury consists of Barton Phelps and Joseph Giovannini.
What do they know about architecture? See for yourself:
http://bpala.com/
https://www.giovanninidesign.com/
Phelps had a middling career as an architect. I’ve heard Phelps talk about architecture. He will name drop (e.g., Vincent Scully, Yale Professor of Architecture), but I don’t think he understands Scully’s work.
From the looks of it (his website), it appears Giovannini is an architectural critic by default. His primary intellectual background, however, is not architecture, but literature and language (BA English Yale and MA French Middlebury College). While that sounds impressive, it makes one wonder why he is so bad at close reading or explication de texte. It also appears he was at Yale after C. Brooks (close reading), but before DeMan/Derrida (allegories of reading/deconstruction), which means that he lacks the proper tools to read a building as anything more than a pictorial or representational object. As I said, he doesn’t even do that well.
... The jury also consists of John Walsh, former Director of the Getty Museum. He also went to Yale (BA). His credibility on the subject depends on what you think about the architecture of the Getty Museum. It did not become the masterpiece everyone was expecting.
... I think JP Marandel also has a Yale connection (fellowship). It’s starting to look like a Yale conspiracy. : (
Shame really. Yale used to be on the cutting edge of architectural discourse. Indeed, some aspects of the Zumthor building remind me of the Beinecke Library (Bunshaft) and both Kahn buildings. Some aspects (e.g., ceiling heights and the tree model) also remind me even more of Bunshaft’s Hirshhorn Museum.
... Yalies should know better than to consort with the Save-LACMA mob.
For the record, I am a Yalie too, but I know better. : P
> with the Save-LACMA mob.
Can I be very honest? You really come off like an idiot and dumb hick.
At the very least, one doesn't have to give a damn about things like Peter Zumthor and whether his design is good or bad, large or small, concrete or glass, plastic or sheetrock.
Although the blob that's supposed to overhang Wilshire Blvd like an unpleasant freeway overpass is bad enough in its own right (hey, at least it isn't even larger in size and therefore even more unpleasant), everything else about harebrained, incompetent, arrogant Michael Govan's plans for LACMA is grounds enough for booting his ass out of Los Angeles.
https://beverlypress.com/2020/04/demolition-begins-on-lacma-campus/
Who hurt you?
Show us on this doll.
(You are a joke. Someone should boot you out of LA before your ignorance spreads beyond the Save-LACMA mob.)
> of LA before your ignorance spreads beyond
> the Save-LACMA mob.)
You come off like the stereotypically shallow, Hollywood-air-headed, botox-filled, culturally lazy resident of LA, the type mocked for decades by people in supposedly more enlightened communities of the nation and world.
Dunderhead Michael Govan and company - a merry ensemble of philistines ("they paved over paradise and put up a parking lot") - are sort of a back to the future, a return to the past, the old being new again, what goes around, comes around.
Worshiping dilettante Michael Govan and flaky Peter Zumthor, and discounting all the damage they're doing to a public cultural institution that has taken decades to build up, is a perfect embodiment of the mentality described in that film.
Both pathetic and disgusting.