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70-617: The National Watercolor Society is a non-profit society which is headed by artists. Its main goal is to improve watercolor painting through trainings and exhibitions. The National Watercolor Society was established by Dana Bartlett in 1920, who was its first president, as the California Water Color Society . In 1967, the members of the society decided to rename the society as the California National Watercolor Society . In 1975,

140-764: A 2004–05 LACMA exhibit, "The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: 1880–1920" and in 2009, the museum presented "The Arts and Crafts Movement: Masterworks From the Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans Collection". With a single acquisition in 2009, LACMA became a major center for the study and display of 18th- and 19th-century European clothing when it bought the holdings of dealers Martin Kamer of London and Wolfgang Ruf of Beckenried, Switzerland—about 250 outfits and 300 accessories created between 1700 and 1915, including men's three-piece suits, women's dresses, children's garb, and

210-631: A 2021 grant provided by Art Bridges and the Terra Foundation for American Art , LACMA launched a collaboration called Local Access, in which the museum shares portions of its collection with the Lancaster Museum of Art and History , Riverside Art Museum , Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College , and California State University, Northridge , Art Galleries. In 1971, curator Maurice Tuchman 's revolutionary "Art and Technology" exhibit opened at LACMA after its debut at

280-659: A Madonna standing inside a tear-shaped canopy, supported by reclining lambs. Lawrence E. Deutsch and Lloyd Rigler donated $ 250,000 to commission a work for the fountain. The architects of The Music Center, Welton Becket and Associates, opposed placing sculpture in the plaza between the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Mark Taper Forum. However, after a two-year search, the Art Committee of The Music Center commissioned Lipchitz. In 2019,

350-473: A considerable number of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti , Constantin Brâncuși , Henry Moore , Willem de Kooning , Joan Miró , Louise Nevelson , Archipenko , and Arp . The Contemporary Art collection is displayed in the 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m ) 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

420-759: A distinguished reputation – locally, nationally, and internationally. The endeavor began in 2000 with The Music Center's sold-out presentation of the Bolshoi Ballet in its historic production of Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet as well as new interpretation of Don Quixote . Since then, The Music Center has presented a broad array of ensembles, including New York City Ballet , San Francisco Ballet , American Ballet Theatre , Dance Theatre of Harlem , Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater , Ballet Nacional de Cuba , Beijing Modern Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Kirov Ballet of

490-533: A few excellent artworks such as the Ardabil Carpet and Rembrandt 's Portrait of Martin Looten , but then became aware of their shabby and disorganized presentation in the county's aging multipurpose museum and chose to establish his own art museum next to his house. Howard F. Ahmanson, Sr. , Anna Bing Arnold and Bart Lytton were the first principal patrons of the new county art museum. Ahmanson made

560-474: A gift of Colombian ceramics from Camilla Chandler Frost , a LACMA trustee and the sister of Otis Chandler , former Los Angeles Times publisher, and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer of Atlanta, whose family built the collection. A sizable portion of LACMA's pre-Columbian collection was excavated from burial chambers in Colima, Nayarit and other regions around Jalisco in modern-day Mexico. LACMA boasts one of

630-526: A major building while renovating the older facilities. The list of candidates had previously narrowed to five in May 2001: Koolhaas, Nouvel, Steven Holl , Daniel Libeskind and Thom Mayne . However, the project soon stalled after the museum failed to secure funding. In 2004 LACMA's board of trustees unanimously approved plans to transform the museum, led by architect Renzo Piano . The planned transformation consisted of three phases. Phase I started in 2004 and

700-517: A program that included violinist Jascha Heifetz and performances of Strauss ' Fanfare and Beethoven 's Violin Concerto in D Major. The Mark Taper Forum, "scandalizing the power structure of Los Angeles," according to its artistic director Gordon Davidson, with its provocative opening production of John Whiting 's The Devils . The Ahmanson Theatre opened with a performance of the Man of La Mancha by

770-528: A roof sculpture garden with two works by James Turrell . However, construction of this phase was halted in November 2010. Phase two and three were never completed. Specifics about the third phase, which initially was to involve renovations to older buildings, long remained undisclosed. In November 2009, plans were made public that LACMA's director Michael Govan was working with Swiss architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Peter Zumthor on plans for rebuilding

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840-628: A total of $ 3.5 million, including important bronze objects and prime examples of Buddhist sculpture. LACMA also has a rich collection of relics from India, mostly consisting of sculptures of Jain Tirthankaras , Buddha and Hindu deities. Many Paintings from India are also present in the LACMA. The second floor of the Ahmanson Building has Greek and Roman Art galleries. A large portion of the museum's ancient Greek and Roman art collection

910-590: A vast array of shoes, hats, purses, shawls, fans, and undergarments. 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. A new contemporary sculpture garden was opened directly east of the museum's Wilshire Boulevard entrance in 1991, including large-scale outdoor sculptures by Alice Aycock , Ellsworth Kelly , Henry Moore, and others. The centerpiece of

980-481: 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

1050-428: Is constructed of approximately seven welded case panels on each side, containing low relief abstracted figures of dancers. The complex has four resident companies: Since its inception in 1979, The Music Center and its family programs has served more than 16 million and currently serves nearly 1 million students and teachers each year. The Music Center believes the arts enhance the lives of all people and are crucial to

1120-505: Is designed in the form of a square or a rectangle at various scales. Other services, among them the museum's education department, shop and three restaurants, will be at ground level, as will a 300-seat theater in the section of the building on the southern side of Wilshire Boulevard. The total cost was estimated to be at $ 650 million, with LA county providing $ 125 million in funds and the rest raised by fundraising. LACMA raised $ 560 million by 2019 and $ 700 million by 2022. The total estimate

1190-421: Is made up of 43 piers and is 45 ft (14 m) long, 33 ft (10 m) wide, and 22 ft (6.7 m) high. The newly fabricated work was initially on loan from the artist's estate, but in 2010, after several months of intense fundraising efforts, "the museum acquired the work for an undisclosed amount reported to exceed $ 3 million and [with an insurance valuation of] 'over $ 5 million. ' " The purchase

1260-401: Is now at $ 750 million by 2023. In 2020, four buildings on the campus were demolished to make way for a reconstructed facility. His design drew strong community opposition and was lambasted by architectural critics and museum curators, who objected to its reduced gallery space, poor design, and exorbitant costs. The re-designed final building was criticized by some local architects, including

1330-662: The 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan. The museum staged its first exhibition by contemporary black artists later that year, featuring Charles Wilbert White , Timothy Washington and David Hammons , then little known. The museum's best-attended show ever was " Treasures of Tutankhamun ", which drew 1.2 million during four months in 1978. The 2005 "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" drew 937,613 during its 137-day run. A 1999 show of Vincent van Gogh masterpieces from

1400-612: The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department in an effort to ensure the preservation of the Watts Towers , offering its staff, expertise, and fundraising assistance. As of 2018, LACMA is working with Los Angeles County to develop a site at the Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park, which is close to Watts Towers. In 2018, LACMA secured a 35-year lease on an 80,000-square-foot, city-owned former Metro maintenance and storage yard from 1911 in

1470-666: The Civic Light Opera . The first dramatic season at the Ahmanson featured Ingrid Bergman in O'Neill 's More Stately Mansions , signaling its intent to marry big-name playwrights with big-name stars. Since its opening in 1964, The Music Center has seen the American debuts of Simon Rattle and Esa-Pekka Salonen , the world premieres of The Shadow Box , Zoot Suit , Children of a Lesser God , and Angels in America at

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1540-612: The Del E. Webb Corporation . Construction was completed in early 1965. At the time, the Los Angeles Music Center and LACMA were concurrent large civic projects which vied for attention and donors in Los Angeles. When the museum opened, the buildings were surrounded by reflecting pools, but they were filled in and covered over when tar from the adjacent La Brea Tar Pits began seeping in. Money poured into LACMA during

1610-628: The Hancock Park Improvement Project was complete, and the LACMA-adjacent park (designed by landscape architect Laurie Olin ) was inaugurated with a free public celebration. The $ 10-million renovation replaced dead trees and bare earth with picnic facilities, walkways, viewing sites for the La Brea tar pits and a 150-seat red granite amphitheater designed by artist Jackie Ferrara . Also in 1994, LACMA purchased

1680-475: The Los Angeles Times editorial architect Christopher Knight , calling the plans "half baked". Antonio Pacheco called the plans an "affront to L.A.'s architectural and cultural heritage." Especially criticized was the plan's reduction in gallery space. The plans raised significant controversy from Angelenos as well, prompting a "Save LACMA" campaign. Los Angeles owns air rights above Wilshire, so

1750-473: The $ 191 million (originally $ 150 million) first phase of the three-part expansion and renovation campaign. BCAM is named for Eli and Edy Broad , who gave $ 60 million to LACMA's campaign; Eli Broad also served on LACMA's board of directors. BCAM opened on February 16, 2008, adding 58,000 square feet (5,400 m ) of exhibition space to the museum. In 2010 the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion opened to

1820-416: The 30 varieties of palms are in the ground, but most are in large wooden boxes above ground. Directly in front of the new entrance to LACMA on Wilshire Boulevard, where Ogden Drive once bisected the 20-acre campus between Wilshire Boulevard and 6th Street, is Chris Burden 's Urban Light (2008), an orderly, multi-tiered installation of 202 antique cast-iron street lights from various cities in and around

1890-485: The 70-plus layers. The laser-cut organic forms undulate and swell out from the walls, sharply contrasting to the rectangular display cases found in most art museums. The museum's pre-Columbian collection began in the 1980s with the first installment of a 570-piece gift from Southern California collector Constance McCormick Fearing and the purchase of about 200 pieces from L.A. businessman Proctor Stafford . The holdings recently jumped from about 1,800 to 2,500 objects with

1960-594: The Ahmanson Building, the Bing Center, and the Lytton Gallery (renamed the Frances and Armand Hammer Building in 1968). The board selected LA architect William Pereira over the directors' recommendation of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the buildings. According to a 1965 Los Angeles Times story, the total cost of the three buildings was $ 11.5 million. Construction began in 1963, and was undertaken by

2030-403: The Art of the Americas Building in 2007). In the far-reaching expansion, museum-goers henceforth entered through the new partially roofed central court, nearly an acre of space bounded by the museum's four buildings. The museum's Pavilion for Japanese Art , designed by maverick architect Bruce Goff , opened in 1988, as did the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden of Rodin bronzes . In 1999,

2100-650: The Chinese and Korean collections. The Korean art collection began with the donation of a group of Korean ceramics in 1966 by Bak Jeonghui , then president of the Republic of Korea, after a visit to the museum. LACMA today claims to have the most comprehensive holding outside of Korea and Japan. The Pavilion for Japanese Art displays the Shin'enkan collection donated by Joe D. Price. In 1999 LACMA trustee Eric Lidow and his wife, Leza, donated 75 ancient Chinese works valued at

2170-657: The County provided the site and raised the remaining $ 14 million using mortgage revenue bonds. The rest of the complex was completed in April 1967. The additional venues, the Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theatre, were dedicated on April 9 and 12, 1967, respectively. When the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion opened its doors on December 6, 1964, the twenty-eight-year-old Zubin Mehta led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in

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2240-638: The Los Angeles Master Chorale. Walt Disney Concert Hall includes the 266-seat Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater ( REDCAT ) and outdoor program areas including the W. M. Keck Foundation Children's Amphitheatre, seating 250-300 and the Nadine and Ed Carson amphitheatre seating 120. The main plaza underwent a $ 40 million renovation project in July 2018. The project doubles the plaza's capacity from 2,500 to 5,000 people. The main venues of

2310-987: The Los Angeles area. The street lights 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 (1995–2004) sculpture was inside the Grand Entrance building and Charles Ray 's Fire Truck (1993) was outside in the courtyard, both lent by the Broad Art Foundation. Both sculptures were removed after being on display for 3 months due to unexpected damage from patrons and wear. Los Angeles Music Center Each year, The Music Center welcomes more than 1.3 million people to performances by its four internationally renowned resident companies: Los Angeles Philharmonic , Los Angeles Opera , Los Angeles Master Chorale , and Center Theatre Group (CTG) as well as performances by

2380-494: The Mariinsky Theatre , Nuevo Ballet Español, Miami City Ballet and Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg. The Music Center is governed by a Board of Directors chaired by Lisa Specht . The Music Center president and chief executive officer is Rachel S. Moore (2015). The County of Los Angeles owns The Music Center venues and provides funding for the maintenance, operations, grounds-keeping, security and ushers. Revenue from

2450-588: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. The modern collection on the plaza level displays works from 1900 to the 1970s, largely populated by the Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection . In December 2007, Janice and Henri Lazarof gave LACMA 130 mostly modernist works estimated to be worth more than $ 100 million. The collection includes 20 works by Picasso , watercolors and paintings by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky and

2520-684: The South Los Angeles Wetlands Park area. In 2023, LACMA and the foundation of the philanthropist Elaine Wynn announced their partnership to launch the Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA). That same year, the Las Vegas council approved negotiations to dedicate a parcel of land for the proposed 90,000-square-foot, three-story building of the Las Vegas Museum of Art in Symphony Park . With the support of

2590-757: The Taper, and performances by Jessica Tandy , Hume Cronyn , Katharine Hepburn , and Maggie Smith at the Ahmanson. The Philharmonic and L.A. Master Chorale joined forces to provide the accompaniment to Eisenstein 's restored silent film classic Alexander Nevsky . While the Civic Light Opera's last season at The Music Center was in 1987, the Los Angeles Music Center Opera was formed in 1986. Its productions have included Wagner 's Tristan and Isolde directed by Jonathan Miller and designed by David Hockney . The Music Center hosts

2660-478: The Wilshire Boulevard complex designed by William Pereira . The museum's wealth and collections grew in the 1980s, and it added several buildings beginning in that decade and continuing in subsequent decades. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States. It attracts nearly a million visitors annually. It holds more than 150,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to

2730-647: The adjacent former May Company department store building , an impressive example of streamline moderne architecture designed by Albert C. Martin Sr. LACMA West increased the museum's size by 30 percent when the building opened in 1998. In 2004 LACMA's board of trustees unanimously approved a plan for LACMA's transformation by architect Rem Koolhaas , who had proposed razing all the current buildings and constructing an entirely new single, tent-topped structure, estimated to cost $ 200 million to $ 300 million. Kohlhaas edged out French architect Jean Nouvel , who would have added

2800-540: The air. The wide roof would have been covered with solar panels. In a later concession to concerns raised by its neighbor, the Page Museum , LACMA had Zumthor alter the shape of his proposed building to stretch across Wilshire Boulevard and away from the La Brea Tar Pits . In June 2014, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved $ 5 million for LACMA to continue its proposed plans to tear down

2870-485: The annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration on Christmas Eve since 1960 with performances from singers, dance groups and musicians. The event is free to everyone and it is televised on PBS SoCal . On October 23, 2003, The Music Center opened the Frank-Gehry -designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, expanding the campus to 11 acres (45,000 m ). The 2,265-seat Concert Hall is home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and

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2940-543: The artist's eponymous Amsterdam museum is the third most successful show, and a 1984 exhibition of French Impressionist works is fourth. In 1994, "Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Therese Walter and Dora Maar" opened to rave reviews and large crowds, drawing more than 153,000 visitors. Since the arrival of current director Michael Govan, about 80% of just over 100 featured temporary exhibitions have been of Modern or contemporary art while

3010-414: The black form aesthetics, reducing it to a one-level, aboveground, glass-enclosed, sand-colored concrete building, to save costs. The design still calls for an arm above Wilshire Boulevard. Other than necessary mechanical systems and bathrooms, the building's entire second story will be devoted to gallery space. Arranged in four broad clusters around the building, each one of the twenty-six core galleries

3080-475: The book. The collection began in earnest in 1973 when the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection was gifted to the museum by philanthropist Joan Palevsky . In 1990 Max Palevsky gave 32 pieces of Arts and Crafts furniture to LACMA; three years later, he added an additional 42 pieces to his gift. In 2000, he donated $ 2 million to LACMA for Arts and Crafts works. He supplied about a third of the 300 objects displayed in

3150-430: The boom years of the 1980s, a reportedly $ 209 million in private donations during director Earl Powell's tenure. To house its growing collections of modern and contemporary art and to provide more space for exhibitions, the museum hired the architectural firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates to design its $ 35.3-million, 115,000-square-foot Robert O. Anderson Building for 20th-century art, which opened in 1986 (renamed

3220-562: The building was held in 2010. Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA ) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art . Four years later, it moved to

3290-586: The city council must give approval to the project, since part of the structure goes over the street. Demolition of the Pereira buildings began in April 2020. The demolition was completed in October of that same year. By 2021, construction slowed with the discovery of on-site fossil finds. In the meantime, the Zumthor building opening was pushed back to 2024, and eventually, 2026. In 2010 LACMA partnered with

3360-468: The collection were financed by sales of works from an 1,800 piece holding of 20th century Mexican art compiled by dealer-collectors Bernard and Edith Lewin and given to the museum in 1997. The pre-Columbian galleries were redesigned by Jorge Pardo , a Los Angeles artist who works in sculpture, design, and architecture. Pardo's display cases are built from thick, stacked sheets of medium-density fiberboard (MDF), with spacing of equal thickness in between

3430-533: The complex (which also includes some outdoor amphitheaters) are: The 10-ton, 29-foot bronze sculpture Peace on Earth (1969 by Jacques Lipchitz , a Cubist sculptor who fled the Nazi occupation of Paris, was dedicated on May 4, 1969, and originally installed as the focal point of the Music Center plaza. His mammoth bronze sculpture shows a dove descending to Earth as a spirit of peace, further symbolized by

3500-509: The dance series Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center. The center is home to on-going community events, arts festivals, outdoor concerts, participatory arts activities and workshops, and educational programs. In April 1955, Dorothy Chandler , wife of Los Angeles Times publisher Norman Chandler, began fundraising toward a permanent home for the Philharmonic. Ultimately Mrs. Chandler raised almost $ 20 million in private donations;

3570-414: The development of every child. The Music Center-designed curriculum materials are included in art textbooks published by McGraw Hill in use across the country and are also available on The Music Center's website. Education and family programs include "World City", the "Blue Ribbon Children's Festival", the "Very Special Arts Festival" and the "Spotlight Awards". Launched in July 2004 and designed to expand

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3640-513: The eastern section of the campus, the Perreira Buildings between the two new Renzo Piano buildings and the tar pits. Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill collaborated with Zumthor on the building's design. With an estimated cost of $ 650 million, Zumthor's first proposal called for a horizontal building along Wilshire Boulevard . It would have been wrapped in glass on all sides and its main galleries lifted one floor into

3710-500: The garden is Alexander Calder 's three-piece mobile Hello Girls , commissioned by a women's museum-support group for the museum's opening in 1965. Situated in a curving reflecting pool, the mobile has brightly colored paddles that are moved by jets of water. The Ahmanson Building's atrium was remodeled to hold Tony Smith 's Smoke , which had not been displayed since its original 1967 presentation at Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art . The massive black painted aluminum artwork

3780-711: The largest collections of Latin American art due to the generous donation of more than 2,000 works of art by Bernard Lewin and his wife Edith Lewin in 1996. In 2007 the museum signed an agreement with the Fundación Cisneros for a loan of 25 colonial-style works, later extended until 2017. The Spanish Colonial collection includes work from 17th and 18th century Mexican artists Miguel Cabrera , José de Ibarra , José de Páez , and Nicolás Rodriguez Juárez . The collection has galleries for Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo . The Latin American contemporary gallery highlights works Francis Alÿs . The Hammer Building houses

3850-626: The late 1950s to the present. All but 30 of the works initially displayed came from the collection of Eli and Edythe Broad (pronounced "brode"). Long-time trustee Robert Halff had already donated 53 works of contemporary art in 1994. Components of that gift included Joan Miró , Jasper Johns , Sam Francis , Frank Stella , Lari Pittman , Chris Burden , Richard Serra , John Chamberlain , Matthew Barney , and Jeff Koons . It also provided LACMA with its first drawings by Claes Oldenburg and Cy Twombly . Back Seat Dodge '38 (1964), by Edward Kienholz ,

3920-579: The lead donation of $ 2 million, convincing the museum board that sufficient funds could be raised to establish the new museum. In 1965 the museum moved to a new Wilshire Boulevard complex as an independent, art-focused institution, the largest new museum to be built in the United States after the National Gallery of Art . The museum, built in a style similar to Lincoln Center and the Los Angeles Music Center , consisted of three buildings:

3990-540: The permanent exhibitions feature work dating from antiquity, including pre-Columbian, Assyrian and Egyptian art through contemporary art. More recent exhibits, focusing on popular culture and entertainment, have also been well-received, both by critics and patrons. Exhibits devoted to the works of movie-directors Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick drew especially positive reactions and responses. LACMA's more than 120,000 objects are divided among its numerous departments by region, media, and time period and are spread amongst

4060-655: The present. In addition to art exhibits , the museum features film and concert series. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a museum in 1961. Prior to this, LACMA was part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art , founded in 1910 in Exposition Park near the University of Southern California . Edward W. Carter helped orchestrate the fundraising effort for LACMA in response to J. Paul Getty 's increasing reluctance to donate any more artworks to Los Angeles County. Getty had donated

4130-430: The public's experience associated with the performing arts, Active Arts at The Music Center extends beyond the more formal experience associated with performing arts centers. Active Arts programs engage people from diverse backgrounds and experiences and establishes an ongoing series of admission-free or low-cost recreational art-making events that encourage people to sing, dance, play music and tell stories together just for

4200-481: The public, providing the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world. The second phase was intended to turn the May building into new offices and galleries, designed by SPF Architects. As proposed, it would have had flexible gallery space, education space, administrative offices, a new restaurant, a gift shop and a bookstore, as well as study centers for the museum's departments of costume and textiles, photography and prints and drawings, and

4270-455: The sculpture was re-installed 100 feet west to accommodate a major Plaza renovation to improve accessibility. Three years after the Peace on Earth installation in 1982, Frederick and Marcia Weisman donated the bronze sculpture Dance Door (1978) by Robert Graham to the Music Center. It consists of an ornamented hollow-centered bronze door hinged on a bronze frame in an open position. The door

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4340-430: 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. The Art of the Americas Building has American, Latin American, and pre-Columbian collections displayed on

4410-642: The second floor and temporary exhibition space on the first floor. Formerly known as the Anderson Building, the Art of the Americas Building comprises galleries for art from North, Central, and South America. From 1972 to 1976, Donelson Hoopes served as Senior Curator of American Art. LACMA's Latin American Art galleries reopened in July 2008 after several years renovation. The Latin American collection includes pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, Modern, and contemporary works. Many recent additions to

4480-442: The sheer enjoyment and love of it. Active Arts programs cut across cross-cultural boundaries and encourage people to participate for the sole purpose of art-making and include "Dance Downtown", "Drum Downtown", "A Taste of Dance", "Public Practice", "Friday Night Sing-Along" and "The Music Center Holiday Sing-Along". Over the past ten years, The Music Center has developed an ambitious dance presentation program, which has established

4550-580: The society was renamed as the National Watercolor Society. The National Watercolor Society held its first exhibition in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . The society used the museum to hold annual exhibitions for 25 years. In 1999, the foundation of the new building for the National Watercolor Society was laid. The building was financed with the support of the members of the society. The opening ceremony of

4620-757: The structures on the east end of its campus for a single museum building. Later that year, they approved in concept a plan that would provide public financing and $ 125 million toward the $ 600-million project. On April 8, 2019, the Zumthor-designed building was approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The final approved building designed was scaled back from the original 387,500 square feet (36,000 m ) to 347,500 square feet (32,280 m ), with gallery space shrinking from 121,000 square feet (11,200 m ) to 110,000 square feet (10,000 m ). The new proposal also dropped

4690-418: The various museum buildings. 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 sculpture Smoke (1967). The plaza level galleries also house African art and a gallery highlighting

4760-510: Was "made possible by The Belldegrun Family's gift to LACMA in honor of Rebecka Belldegrun's birthday", per the museum. Eli and Edythe Broad 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. Surrounding the BCAM building and LACMA's courtyard is a 100 palm tree garden, designed by artist Robert Irwin and landscape architect Paul Comstock . Some of

4830-429: Was completed in February 2008. The renovations required demolishing the parking structure on Ogden Avenue and with it LACMA-commissioned graffiti art by street artists Margaret Kilgallen and Barry McGee . The entry pavilion is a key point in architect Renzo Piano's plan to unify LACMA's sprawling, often confusing layout of buildings. The BP Grand Entrance and the adjacent Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) comprise

4900-414: Was donated by William Randolph Hearst , the publishing magnate, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The museum's Islamic galleries include over 1700 works from ceramics and inlaid metalwork to enameled glass, carved stone and wood, and arts of the book from manuscript illumination to Islamic calligraphy . The collection is especially strong in Persian and Turkish glazed pottery and tiles, glass, and arts of

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