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Major @LACMA expenses (2012-2022) per IRS 990s:
Construction loans: $343,000,000+
Construction
$295,817,325
2nd architect:
$44,898,275
Michael Govan (salary+$1mil bonus): $19,084,894
Peter Zumthor:
$13,294,280
Demolition:
$7,998,126
TOTAL: $724,056,890
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“The film (Pistachio Wars) claims that [Lynda & Stewart Resnick’s] monumental extraction of water has drained rivers, led to the mass extinction of fish, and exacerbated the state’s ongoing drought crisis. @LACMA [has] not replied to inquiries.
https://t.co/ncKLJ9uqI1
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I wrote about micro-protests at LACMA and the Hammer Museum this week staged by @yashalevine and @EvgeniaKovda, targeting major donors Lynda and Stewart Resnick, in conjunction with the upcoming film @pistachiowars for @hyperallergic https://t.co/n617TquGJm
[T]he slender colonnade that ushered you into the Bing Theatre, the way the Ahmanson Building’s atrium gracefully accommodated Tony Smith’s “Smoke”. I was sad to think that Pereira’s trio of buildings were no longer there.
- Justin Beal
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Please read our most recent email blast. There are several extraordinary revelations we’ve compiled from various sources which, all together, describe what’s going on with leadership @LACMA, including culpability with crimes against humanity.
https://t.co/UH3lvZn9bo
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@LangeAlexandra First and foremost, the citizens of LA County as it is, after all, a museum owned by the county; now with a $770mil+ debt load created
by @LACMA’s CEO, who swayed the @LACountyBOS (especially @SheilaKuehl) to give him $125mil and lend $330mil - all taxpayer money.
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As @artnet reported today, @lacma’s Board member @dashazhukova is now the 51% owner of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s, her ex, almost $1bil art collection. Why is LA County’s art museum rife with individuals who have notorious histories?
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Perhaps, when @lacma runs out of money and/or its groaning $840mil+ debt load becomes too much to bear, it’ll want to sell the much depreciated Zumthor building to @Sothebys too.
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Quote du Jour: “The chance to buy an iconic museum in any major city — this doesn’t happen…” https://t.co/nP1RVuTBEz
Probably never to be seen in public again as @lacma simply does not and will not ever have the room to exhibit this beautiful room.
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LACMA's Damascene period room derives from a courtyard home in the al-Basha quarter. The room is largely in its original state with impressively preserved painted surfaces with brilliant pinks, oranges, blues, and greens. | https://t.co/HAkbUmBmjz
Strong art for @KnightLAT's excoriation of Michael Govan's pathetic curatorial program at the much diminished LACMA, featuring the director's lack of art historical training, diverted funds for out of state ego projects, more building delays. #savelacma! https://t.co/9UcBKQxG5D
“Do you miss LACMA?”
We all do….
(fun, if a bit depressing [hope those rats don’t gnaw on the silk tapestries], rendering BTW)
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How lopsided has the program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art been? Of the 11 shows on view at the museum last year, just two centered on historical art. The other nine — 82% of the program — presented art of the modern era. https://t.co/KoR4h0s8ge
Wait until you see what @SOM has in store for @LACMA’s new “Zumthor” building. Not only will the value engineering that they’ve applied be extraordinarily severe, Zumthor’s vision will be pretty much erased and replaced by SOM‘s - as painfully evidenced here.
#SaveLACMA.
@2020Blackstone We all do….
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“LACMA, as if it were a museum of Modern and contemporary art rather than world art history, continues its unfortunate trajectory of over-emphasizing 20th and 21st century work. History matters, but these days those stories are mostly missing on Wilshire Boulevard.”
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Oscars & art, Oscars & classical music, Oscars & theater — and plenty more in this week’s LA Times Essential Arts Newsletter https://t.co/fk5T5DfChi
@cmonstah Sister Wendy has always had some, ahem, insightful and enlightening perspectives.
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There is no greater representation of white male artists @lacma than the massive sculptures and installations by Heizer, Burden, Stella and (currently in storage) Smith - all curated by a white male director.
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The comments on this post are astonishing.
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Huntington Gets a Vigée Le Brun Portrait, 2nd Ahmanson Gift https://t.co/LOd3B9dK75
The outcome is not looking very promising.
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NY Times says LACMA could be a major destination for Spanish Colonial art, “depending on the outcome of its expansion.” Uh-huh. https://t.co/cAaQiVZqpl
Also, Tony Smith’s “Smoke”, once planned to be safely shaded under the Zumthor/SOM building, is now placed out in the elements. They’ve even added a few trees to occlude the smaller redesign. Just look at the staircase, it’s measurably shorter.
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This is a public institution, doubly so since it’s not only a nonprofit corporation but also an LA County institution, and it is absolutely required to be open and honest. And yet we get obfuscation and double talk. What’s truly going on here?
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