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Gallery in history section of each building. historical photos.
 Original LACMA buildings in 1965 |
Entrance and Art of the Americas building viewed from Wilshire boulevard. Prior to the expansion to include BCAM and the BP Grand Entrance, the arch & portal was the main entrance to the museum. |
BP Grand Entrance, Chris Burden's Urban Light and BCAM. Palm tree garden by Robert Irwin |
Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) |
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Hammer Building |
Ahmanson building |
Ahmanson building atrium filled with Tony Smith's Smoke sculpture |
Pavilion for Japanese Art |
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LACMA West viewed from Wilshire boulevard |
[edit] Collections
LACMA's more than 250,000 objects are divided among its numerous departments by region, media, and time period and are spread amongst the various museum buildings. [1]
The Modern Art collection is displayed in the Ahmanson Building which was renovated in 2008 to have a new entrance featuring a large staircase, conceived as a gathering place similar to Rome's Spanish Steps. Filling the atrium at the base of the staircase is Tony Smith's massive scuplture Smoke (1967).[2] The modern collection on the plaza level displays works from 1900 to the 1970s, largely populated by the Janice and Henry Lazaroff collection. The plaza level galleries house African art and a gallery highlighting the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. The second floor of the Ahmanson Building has Greek and Roman Art galleries.
The Art of the Americas Building has American, Latin American and pre-Columbian collections displayed on the second floor and temporary exhibition space on the first floor. The Hammer Building houses the Korean and Chinese collections.[2] Los Angeles sculptor Robert Graham created the towering, bronze Retrospective Column (1981, cast in 1986) for the entrance of the Art of the Americas Building.
The Pavilion for Japanese Art displays the Shin'enkan collection donated by Joe D. Price.
The Contemporary Art collection is displayed in the 60,000 square foot Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), opened on February 16, 2008. BCAM's inaugural exhibition featured 176 works by 28 artists of postwar Modern art from the late 1950's to the present. All but 30 of the works initially displayed came from the collection of Eli and Edythe Broad.[3]
Surrounding the BCAM building the museum courtyard is a 100 tree palm tree garden, designed by artist Robert Irwin and landscape architect Paul Comstock. Some of the 30 varieties of palms are in the ground, but most are in large wooden boxes above ground.[4][3] Directly in front of the new entrance to LACMA on Wilshire Boulevard is Chris Burden's Urban Light (2008), an orderly, multi-tiered installation of 202 antique cast-iron lampposts from various cities in and around the Los Angeles area. The lamp posts are functional, turn on in the evening, and are powered by solar panels on the roof of the BP Grand Entrance.
Originally Jeff Koons Tulips sculpture was inside the Grand Entrance building and the Fire Truck was outside in the courtyard. Both sculptures were removed after being on display for 3 months due to unexpected damage from patrons and wear.
[edit] African Art
Notable works
[edit] Ancient Near Eastern Art
[edit] Art of the Ancient Americas
[edit] Art of the United States
[edit] Chinese Art
[edit] Contemporary Art
The Broads contributed $10 million to fund the purchase of Richard Serra's Band sculpture, on display on the first floor of BCAM when the building opened.[5][3]
for the BCAM opening, Fire truck out front. Jeff Koons tulips in the BP Grand Entrance.
[edit] Costume & Textiles
[edit] Decorative Arts and Design
[edit] Egyptian Art
[edit] European Painting
La Tour work, Bubble
[edit] European Sculpture
Sculpture includes the Cantor Rodin sculpture garden.
[edit] The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
[edit] Greek & Roman Art
[edit] Islamic Art
sekhmet ehypt, 26th dynasty
eagle headed deity assyria, kalah, palace of ashurnasirpal II, 883-858
seated baboon
[edit] Japanese Art
primarily housed in the Japanese Pavilion building. large holdings, a significant portion donated by the Fisher family.
[edit] Korean Art
[edit] Latin American Art
- Latin American Art
recent Chicano art show. mention the history with graffiti at LACMA in the 1970s
[edit] Modern Art
In December 2007, the Modern Art holdings were greatly expanded by the gift of the 130 item Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. The collection features significant works from; Constantin Brancusi, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso and Camille Pissarro.[6]
“Back Seat Dodge ’38 (1964) by Edward Kienholz, is a sculpture portraying a couple engaged in sexual activity in the back seat of a truncated 1938 Dodge automobile chassis. The piece won Kienholz instant celebrity in 1966 when the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors tried to ban the sculpture as pornographic and threatened to withhold financing from LACMA if it included the work in a Kienholz retrospective. A compromise was reached under which the sculpture’s car door would remain closed and guarded, to be opened only on the request of a museum patron who was over 18, and only if no children were present in the gallery. The uproar led to more than 200 people lining up to see the work the day the show opened. Ever since, Back Seat Dodge ’38 has drawn crowds.[7]
Treachery of images, Magritte. Il n'est pas une pipe. Most likely the most well known of the art works held by LACMA
Not displayed since its' original show at Washington DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1967, the Ahmanson Building's remodeled atrium now holds Tony Smith's sculpture Smoke (1967). The massive black steel artwork is made up of 43 piers, and is 45 ft. long, 33 ft. wide and 22 ft. high. The work is currently on loan from the artists' estate.
- October 13, 1967 Time magazine cover featuring Smoke sculpture by Tony Smith
- October 13, 1967 Time Magazine article featuring Smoke sculpture by Tony Smith
