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LACMA to Display Buddhist Art

Crowned Buddha, Thailand, Lopburi, about 1250-1300. LACMA. Gift of Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio

LACMA is planning a large exhibition of its Buddhist art, which has been off view since the 2020 demolition of the Ahmanson Building. "Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia" will showcase about 150 works spanning India, the Himalayas, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. It will run May 11, 2025, to Apr. 5, 2026, in the Resnick Pavilion.

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Anonymous said…
Time sure does zoom by fast. Hard to believe that Pereira's (and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer's) campus has been gone for over 4 years.

I believe the Broad building (based on a stipulation of Eli Broad) is required to display only newer art, while the Resnick is for special exhibitions of all genres. So shows for categories like Buddhist art should have been way more the rule, not the exception. Instead, the amount of space set aside during the past 4 years in the Resnick for newer art has been too much overkill.

I believe the building's namesake favors older European artworks, so I wonder if she has been antsy about the direction of Govan's LACMA?

However, putting together displays of contemporary art must cost less to organize than older forms of art, so money is probably one factor. But if the budget for special exhibits at LACMA is a big issue, why were the finances for the Zumthor building allowed to skyrocket?
November 18, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Anonymous said…
Using the Resnick Pavilion for mostly contemporary art was a huge misstep. It should've been used to display more of LACMA's older permanent collection. It could've been a good way for curators to workshop some exhibition ideas for its new building.
November 19, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Anonymous said…
^ It's even more exasperating since there are already MOCA, the Broad, the Hammer and quasi-museum/commercial art galleries like Hauser & Wirth. Much less the LACMA's own Broad building. So today's museum isn't like the museum from over 30 years ago. Even then, it has always been a supposedly general-interest or encyclopedic-type facility, not something like the pre-Norton-Simon Pasadena Art Museum.

Why people like director Govan have such a fondness for styles similar to 3 of the 4 exhibits now in the Resnick indicate poor judgment or unreliable decisionmaking.
November 19, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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