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| Getty Villa and Palisades fire |
The Getty site has an article on fire-fighting efforts at the Getty Villa, with photos. Though the intensively engineered building stood up to the wind-blown embers, some trees and other vegetation on the property burnt. The irrigation system was damaged, and the normally sparking blue peristyle fountains filled with black sludge.
While the Getty Center has reopened, the Villa is closed until further notice. The article says that clean-up and repairs will continue for "months to come."
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| Fire on Getty Villa grounds |
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| Inner Peristyle Garden fountain |
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Finger-pointing as to who or what made the devastation much worse is coming on the heels of the social-economic relevance of LA ("Hollywood") already being knocked around. Film and TV production is increasingly leaving Calif. It's interesting how the museum next to LACMA that took decades to be finally added to the LA scene parallels the decline in LA of the industry it focuses on.
Meanwhile, the type of governance that enabled LACMA of today (budget, programming, display space, etc) and which prior to 2020 took decades to mature, may have similarly affected what recently happened to Malibu and the Pacific Palisades (which took decades to mature), if not the area north of Pasadena too.
No one is pointing fingers, except Trump.
Your doom and gloom fantasies about LA sound like something that would come out of Trump's demented mind.
... Ok, I am game. How did LACMA's governance cause the fires in the Pacific Palisades? Did Govan help Newsom to set the fires? ... What nonsense!!!
The officials of the city of LA and state of Calif make all the negative trends and publicity hovering over it totally mystifying.
However, SoCal's main namesake industry admittedly has been increasingly saying bye-bye for decades. But a combination of post-Covid, technology and cultural-political tastes explain why the entertainment industry is to the city of LA what the automobile industry is to the city of Detroit.
LACMA's funding may be affected by ongoing trends. The region certainly has fewer major corporations than it did back in 1965. And philanthropy is the life blood of most cultural institutions.
> except Trump.
Pointing fingers may be better than rocking back and forth, and acting almost happy-go-lucky, as Governor Newsom was seen doing on camera a few weeks ago as he was interviewed about the fires.