By Joseph Giovannini
+ Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)
...the result was going to be a rebuild that, for the first time in American history, drastically reduced the size of the museum it replaced... The Govan Shutdown means more than just four and a half years of construction. The replacement structure will shrink LACMA and demote the largest encyclopedic museum west of the Mississippi into a one-story exhibition hall floating on pylons 20 to 30 feet above ground. With far fewer galleries and a drastic reduction of both square footage and wall space for hanging art, the new structure on the East Campus commits the museum to contraction rather than expansion, contrary to all other museum projects across the United States over the last generation — and perhaps ever.
Read the full text at LARB.: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lacma-suicide-by-architecture/
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