Quote of the Day: Christopher Knight
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| Doug Chiang, Podrace Crash, 1995-1999. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art |
"…the Lucas idea confuses art culture with popular culture, bizarrely touting illustrated storytelling as 'the people's art.' As one of those people, I object."
—Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight is retiring after 36 years. His final column traces L.A.'s ascendancy as an art center and lands parting zingers on Michael Govan's Geffen Galleries and George Lucas' narrative art-thing.
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How disappointing, then, that they haven't enriched their collection nearly as intensively as I would expect.
With that bankroll, don't wait for scheduled evening sales in New York or London. Knock on every schloss, palazzo, chateau and country estate in Europe, with checkbook in hand. Right now, you're more like an Olympian swimmer with a withered arm.
> thematic installations of its
> permanent collections, although
> it doesn’t have the depth to
> present more than Art History
> Lite.
Museum on tight budgets don't have much room to maneuver. However, the Resnick (along with BCAM, natch) since 2020 has had way too many shows of contemporary art. Or cheap-o-type programming. But now that more of the "Lite" permanent collection will be on display in the Geffen (and no longer squirreled away in storage), the Resnick for the past 5 years being as flimsy as the Bakersfield Art Gallery & Wellness Center is even less excusable.