{"id":411618,"date":"2026-04-22T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411618\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:03:17","slug":"new-lacma-building-opens-with-gala-and-galleries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411618\/","title":{"rendered":"New LACMA Building Opens With Gala and Galleries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LACMA<\/a>) recently welcomed its first visitors to its new flagship building, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.<\/p>\n<p>New Museum Building Opens<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"David Geffen Galleries LACMA\" alt=\"David Geffen Galleries LACMA\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/david-geffen-galleries-lacma-photo-ben-davis.png\" data- class=\"wp-image-52241 size-full lazyload\"\/>Photo: Ben Davis<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/lacma-in-pics-2765837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">decades-in-the-making project<\/a>, the spacious exterior of the building, which features lots of glass windows to filter in natural light, leads from stairs and elevators into the concrete-and-glass David Geffen Galleries. The many windows around the building also provide beautiful views of the L.A. landscape, including the newly installed outdoor sculptures, such as Jeff Koons\u2018s flower-bedecked colossus, Split-Rocker (2000).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"new LACMA galleries\" alt=\"new LACMA galleries\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/new-lacma-galleries-photo-ben-davis.png\" data- class=\"wp-image-52243 size-full lazyload\"\/>Photo: Ben Davis<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The art installed around the Geffen building\u2019s corridors is bathed in the bright light of the California sun, softened by tinted windows and signature curtains. The central axis of the long space is broken up by a series of galleries of varying sizes. The transition from the light hallway areas into the gallery spaces plunges visitors into darkness, creating an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com\/technology\/inside-the-worlds-largest-immersive-city-model-amsterdam-comes-to-life-in-3d\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">immersive<\/a> effect for specific exhibits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CEO and director of LACMA, Michael Govan, used the new architecture to refresh the museum\u2019s presentation of history, presenting works of contemporary art mixed with classical sculpture. While there is a loose geographical organization, the museum is curated so that visitors never feel stuck in one place or time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"car display LACMA galleries\" alt=\"car display LACMA galleries\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/car-display-lacma-galleries-photo-ben-davis.png\" data- class=\"wp-image-52244 size-full lazyload\"\/>Photo: Ben Davis<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">LACMA held a black-tie opening gala to celebrate the museum\u2019s opening, featuring 800 donors, board members, LA gallerists, celebrities, and musicians. The final cost of the renovation was approximately $720 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe think of this building not as an end of anything, but as a beginning, a platform for experimentation, for new idealism,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/story\/its-lacmas-world-and-hollywood-wants-to-play-in-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Govan stated<\/a> at the museum building\u2019s opening event. \u201cHistory is always changing. We\u2019re always looking at it in a different way, and we hopefully have built an instrument to capture our continued thoughts. I want to thank all of you for making this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recently welcomed its first visitors to its new flagship building,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[118058,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,180698],"class_list":["post-411618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-exhibitions","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-world-of-creation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}