The Citizens' Brigade to Save LACMA

The Zumthor designed new building for LACMA will destroy LACMA. Really. Sign the petition to stop and rethink before we lose our museum:

[The Citizens' Brigade to Save LACMA @citizens4LACMA]

"Asked recently at a dinner party what he thought of the [@LACMA] building, Frank Gehry simply draped a napkin over his head." 🤕🤕🤕

From Joseph Giovannini's latest critique in @nybooks:

https://t.co/44DKjNPLvd

[Taylor & Company PR @JulieTaylorPR]

For the past 11 years, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has withheld from public view the details of its plans for a new building spanning Wilshire Boulevard that will replace the four buildings now demolished. Learn more: https://t.co/ogPeFKbhrb. #PressRelease

[Laura @encyclokatz]

It took me a long time to get through this article bc it's so depressing. As a @lacma member I have been angry about this for over a year but it's even worse than I dreaded @HildaSolis @mridleythomas @SheilaKuehl @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger why is this happening on your watch?

[The Citizens' Brigade to Save LACMA @citizens4LACMA]

"Losing 10,000 square feet of gallery space is an outrage for what should be an encyclopedic museum. To have so many important works in storage is abhorrent." - Janet Cupples, Tarzana

[L.A. Times Opinion @latimesopinion]

Letters to the Editor: The new LACMA's disturbing message about the future of art museums https://t.co/HmXbIF2aow

[Olly Wainwright @ollywainwright]

Imagine paying $750m for a new museum that’s smaller than your existing one, and which doesn’t actually have the facilities you need. Peter Zumthor strikes again! 👑 https://t.co/sVGNdeDXEd

[The Citizens' Brigade to Save LACMA @citizens4LACMA]

Another fmr dir of a major American art museum called the plan a “joke,” citing the constant, disruptive flow of people in the corridors and the “ridiculous” size of the boxed galleries, which are “dead wrong: windowless, without natural lateral light, and just too plain small."

[The Citizens' Brigade to Save LACMA @citizens4LACMA]

"Asked recently at a dinner party what he thought of the [@LACMA] building, Frank Gehry simply draped a napkin over his head." 🤕🤕🤕

From Joseph Giovannini's latest critique in @nybooks:

https://t.co/44DKjNPLvd

[The Citizens' Brigade to Save LACMA @citizens4LACMA]

"Visitors, like pinballs, will bounce between paintings and sculpture—a piece here and a piece there—isolated on segmented walls and in narrow spaces... experts at LACMA have woven collections into nuanced tapestries that are now being unraveled in favor of a Whitman’s Sampler."

[Global Issues Web @globalissuesweb]

The Demolition of LACMA: Art Sacrificed to Architecture https://t.co/TpUzUWdxlH

[Philip Kennicott @PhilipKennicott]

Giovannini's article in @nybooks is a model of architectural criticism. It's hard to see how @lacma could go forward after this. Except they will. A tragedy seems to be unfolding before our eyes.

[Mark Doerr @Jailyard90grad]

What Govan is doing to @LACMA is a travesty.

https://t.co/t9n4Gu05pZ

[Angry Over Sister's DEATH at Hollywood Presb. @PG_Kelly_v2]

#California
#LosAngeles &
#LosAngelesCounty

We lost our #LACMA

This is criminal.
#Boycott #LACMA

[Vintage Los Angeles @alisonmartino]

What’s left of the original Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Photo taken by Gary Baseman

[Christopher Knight @KnightLAT]

Sheer, unadulterated nonsense: "...displaying all art on a single level avoids giving more prominence to any specific culture, tradition, or era..." https://t.co/7npwS8Qlr5

[The Citizens' Brigade to Save LACMA @citizens4LACMA]

Great questions! Would love to hear some answers, @LACMA🤨🤨🤨

[Dan Exhausted 🇺🇸 @EST2PST]

@LACMA Will they be talking about how their offices will be located offsite of the new building? Or perhaps how the limited amount of gallery space (less than the original campus) will make for tight curatorial (and thus educational) choices? Conversational indeed. #SaveLACMA

[Nonprofit Quarterly @npquarterly]

Artists are urging @LACMA to cut ties with a board member who profits off of the deeply racist and unjust prison system: https://t.co/42iNp59DLo #racialjustice #massincarceration

[Christopher Knight @KnightLAT]

"...the new [Metro] line extension [was] supposed to have a LACMA-funded entrance opening directly onto its campus, eliminating the need for thousands of people each day to cross a [wide] road. LACMA has so far weaseled its way out of building it." https://t.co/QQLiTmACnd