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Geffen Galleries Open Apr. 19

LACMA has announced opening date(s) for the David Geffen Galleries. A ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sunday, Apr. 19th, will mark the start of a two-week preview period for museum members. Sunday, May 3rd, will be a day of activities for NexGenLA, the free youth membership program. Monday, May 4th, will be the first day for nonmembers.

The inaugural display will debut Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud and commissions by Lauren Halsey, Sarah Rosalena, Do Ho Suh, Diana Thater, and Pedro Reyes. It will also include the museum's newly gifted van Gogh, Tarascon Stagecoach. They're making the most of that painting, which was unveiled last December in "Collecting Impressionism at LACMA," will be moved to "Village Square: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection" later this month—and then will be moved to the Geffen in April. 

Member reservations are now available on the LACMA website. 

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Anonymous said…
Govan in today's LA Times says if the museum is ever going to expand again in the future, it will be in satellite locations, an idea which he has promoted in the past. That indicates he doesn't take budgets, logistical efficiency and geographical gravity seriously enough.

That could be one reason why he doesn't mind installing way too many doohicky contemporary art exhibits throughout LACMA---eg, displays of Met-type "chandeliers" that eat up lots of space in the Resnick Pavilion..

What a shame if LACMA 2026 is some ways repeats LACMA 1965.

February 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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