The Statue of Liberty is worth seeing, especially if you’re in Miami anyway.
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^ LOL. And when visiting Chicago, I understand the Golden Gate Bridge is quite a sight to behold.
btw, who's Claude and where's that excerpt from?
"European severity." Huh?
A "four-star" building but a "two-star" installation?
Way too vague or too esoteric.
My take: Too much gray concrete, and too many spaces (both wall and floor) that are blank.
There are some sculptures apparently still in storage that sure as heck should have been included in the premier exhibit. Even if during the next several months they're finally trudged out, LACMA's director and staffers are repeating some of the same tentativeness that their predecessors did in 1965.
Some museums are so professionally managed, they can never be second guessed. In LACMA's case, I wouldn't be surprised if they're planning to sell in their museum store a packet of black-steel wall brackets.
Anonymous said…
Claude let a local (Michael Govan) hive you a guided tour)
Anonymous said…
Claude is only as good as the input. But it's good to know that Claude is discriminating enough to ignore the inputs of the I-HATE-LACMA guy. Even Claude knows that guy is stupid.
The Geffen Galleries are officially open to the public today.
Anonymous said…
Thanks, G Garcin, for helping me realize that LACMA has been overseen for decades by a bunch of rubes. Your valuable input has helped me mull over that sad reality.
You and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (did I mention the MFA Houston before?) have both forced me to realize that, whoa, lots of hicks for over 50 years have been affecting LA's public art museum.
I wish I were just being sarcastic. However, unlike LACMA, the MFAH has managed its expansions way more professionally than LACMA has done. Not to mention Houston, along with most other cities in the US, had developed a building for the visual arts well before LA did.
Threads, johnmireles: Visited the new Geffen galleries at LACMA. Whoa there’s a lot of art on display! I loved the layout of the new space.... What I didn’t like were the endless concrete gray walls. It gave the place a downtrodden, jail like feel. I think the walls could use a coat of white paint to cheer the place up. [End quote]
I've yet to read one review that comments on how many blank spaces exist in the Geffen. To me, a museum that gives the impression it has more space than objects to exhibit in it is the biggest fail, worse than even mediocre display spaces or shaky curatorial judgment.
Although more of the collection in the next several months is supposed to be brought out, I don't trust LACMA to do what they should have done from the start. They should have always been self-conscious about the Geffen on opening day not appearing as strong as possible in both (1) volume and (2) quality (Met/Louvre/NGA-type).
"I've yet to read one review that comments on how many blank spaces exist in the Geffen"
It's been mentioned on one of the blog posts that Geffen has only installed 1700 objects out of the 2500-3000 they're planning to have. Whatever blank walls are likely only temporary.
Anonymous said…
> blank walls are > likely only > temporary.
I don't like having to second guess them.
There's a large sculpture by Alexander Lieberman that certainly should be re-installed in their new gardens. However, it's not listed in the museum's data base. If I had full confidence in their 60-plus-year track record, I wouldn't have suspicions about that. Such as, hey, did they sell that on the sly to balance their budget?
It's not just today's LACMA (ie, Govan/Zumthor) that has an iffy or flaky track record too. It's the museum's track record going back to day one (ie, Brown/Pereira/Expo Park).
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https://youtu.be/I2HGRci0X8U?si=GxPRfDbOyYSO0HUP
^ Places like that have professionalism oozing out of their pores.
Meanwhile, Govan and his people can't even match the color of wall brackets to the stone friezes mounted on a wall. smh
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btw, who's Claude and where's that excerpt from?
"European severity." Huh?
A "four-star" building but a "two-star" installation?
Way too vague or too esoteric.
My take: Too much gray concrete, and too many spaces (both wall and floor) that are blank.
There are some sculptures apparently still in storage that sure as heck should have been included in the premier exhibit. Even if during the next several months they're finally trudged out, LACMA's director and staffers are repeating some of the same tentativeness that their predecessors did in 1965.
Some museums are so professionally managed, they can never be second guessed. In LACMA's case, I wouldn't be surprised if they're planning to sell in their museum store a packet of black-steel wall brackets.
--- J. Garcin
You and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (did I mention the MFA Houston before?) have both forced me to realize that, whoa, lots of hicks for over 50 years have been affecting LA's public art museum.
I wish I were just being sarcastic. However, unlike LACMA, the MFAH has managed its expansions way more professionally than LACMA has done. Not to mention Houston, along with most other cities in the US, had developed a building for the visual arts well before LA did.
Threads, johnmireles:
Visited the new Geffen galleries at LACMA. Whoa there’s a lot of art on display! I loved the layout of the new space.... What I didn’t like were the endless concrete gray walls. It gave the place a downtrodden, jail like feel. I think the walls could use a coat of white paint to cheer the place up. [End quote]
I've yet to read one review that comments on how many blank spaces exist in the Geffen. To me, a museum that gives the impression it has more space than objects to exhibit in it is the biggest fail, worse than even mediocre display spaces or shaky curatorial judgment.
Although more of the collection in the next several months is supposed to be brought out, I don't trust LACMA to do what they should have done from the start. They should have always been self-conscious about the Geffen on opening day not appearing as strong as possible in both (1) volume and (2) quality (Met/Louvre/NGA-type).
It's been mentioned on one of the blog posts that Geffen has only installed 1700 objects out of the 2500-3000 they're planning to have. Whatever blank walls are likely only temporary.
> likely only
> temporary.
I don't like having to second guess them.
There's a large sculpture by Alexander Lieberman that certainly should be re-installed in their new gardens. However, it's not listed in the museum's data base. If I had full confidence in their 60-plus-year track record, I wouldn't have suspicions about that. Such as, hey, did they sell that on the sly to balance their budget?
It's not just today's LACMA (ie, Govan/Zumthor) that has an iffy or flaky track record too. It's the museum's track record going back to day one (ie, Brown/Pereira/Expo Park).
^ Places like that have professionalism oozing out of their pores.
Meanwhile, Govan and his people can't even match the color of wall brackets to the stone friezes mounted on a wall. smh
The Met: Hold my beer, you rubes.