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C+M Grab & Go offers a casual menu with something for everyone and is open daily, except Wednesdays. First-come, first-served seating is available on the plaza. Save time and skip the line: order online. [links]
Ray’s and Stark Bar, with gourmet farm-to-table cuisine and table service available both indoors and
outdoors, is also open daily except Wednesdays. Reservations are encouraged.
Learn about Patina's commitment to safety for guests and employees. here
LACMA has several on-campus dining options by the Patina Restaurant Group.
Note: Museum admission is not required to visit any of our three dining establishments and guests can enjoy the discounted parking rate ($8) from 7 pm until close. [links]
“I’m coming to learn that being under the radar may not be a good thing even though I’m most comfortable that way,” said Smidt, whose personal art collection includes works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Vincent Van Gogh. He said stepping more publicly into the philanthropic light “shows leadership. I want to give back.”
Smidt bought an Italian-style villa and became a philanthropist, donating gifts to educational programs, including funding the charter school Alliance Susan & Eric Smidt Technology High in Lincoln Heights. He also increasingly turned his eye toward art, starting with the Old Masters and then in 2004 paying $6 million for a Van Gogh. He later switched his tastes to Abstract Expressionism and has been listed by ARTnews as one of the world’s 200 top art collectors.
He returned home when he was 11. But not for long: “My mother wanted him [the father] to be focused on her. She was very frightened.” Smidt added: “I was in the way.” He was sent to live with his father’s sister, Rezella, an Army nurse who had eight cats and four dogs in Clarksville, Tenn. She bought him a small motorcycle, and he enjoyed the freedom of the place. But, he said, it was difficult to reconcile that “I wasn’t really a wanted child.” here
Why are the gallery walls concrete?
Concrete was chosen to give the building a sublime aesthetic character and beautiful sense of gravitas. Concrete walls have been utilized successfully in other museums like the Kimbell, the Guggenheim, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. Not one artist whose work was displayed at Bregenz has ever covered that museum's walls with sheetrock. Additionally, many objects and antiquities in our collection originated in buildings or other settings built from stone, so it is particularly fitting to display them in concrete-walled galleries.
Peter Zumthor’s plans for the David Geffen Galleries present an opportunity to counter this history. The design ensures a future for LACMA that better serves the people of Los Angeles by facilitating richer, more meaningful experiences with art, while also fulfilling the decades-long intent to architecturally and spatially unify the museum’s Wilshire campus, while at the same time creating more public park and open space. [links]
We invite you to be a part of the new LACMA.
Is LACMA reducing space for the permanent collection?
No. The new building gives us the flexibility to display collection areas for longer periods or to present permanent collections as temporary exhibitions, giving visitors opportunities to see more art from the permanent collection in greater variety. Additionally, LACMA has always displayed works from the permanent collection in special exhibitions in BCAM and the Resnick Pavilion, and will continue to do so. The first floor of BCAM also exhibits some of our most treasured permanent collection works, such as Richard Serra’s Band and Robert Irwin’s Miracle Mile .
How will areas of LACMA’s collection come to life as never before in the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA? Find out in a series of short videos about the new building coming to our campus.
The history of art is long, but the history of museums is short. The art museum as we know it has existed for less than three hundred years, a cabinet of far-flung curiosities first created for societies not yet familiar with the airplane, the television, or the internet. So much has changed in the world; the art museum must evolve as well.
The favorite Friday night performances are back in a new small-capacity ticketed format—Jazz at LACMA Limited Edition! This year marks Jazz at LACMA's 30th season of celebrating L.A.'s finest jazz musicians.
This event is sold out. [links]
Join I.R. Bach for “A Walk in the Park,” a podcast exploring the ideas of Think Big, an artwork for LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives. The program will involve original music composed by the artist featuring virtuosic jazz vocalist Dwight Trible.
Join us in Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park and let the elements of nature guide you in this experimental two-dimensional project where you'll create a vibrant landscape using organic shapes and patterns.