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\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 \t\t\t\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 After more than five years in the making, LACMA\u2019s David Geffen Galleries finally have an opening date. April 19<\/a> is when the ribbon-cutting celebration kicks off, with two weeks of priority access and special events for members<\/a> and donors. On Sunday, May 3,<\/a> NexGenLA members, youth 17 and under, can enjoy a free day of activities and gallery access.\u00a0<\/p>\n As reported by the Larchmont Chronicle,<\/a> LACMA is pairing new commissions with European antiquities<\/a> and works from around the globe for the first time, breaking from traditional chronological or regional displays.\u00a0<\/p>\n A landmark addition to LACMA<\/p>\n The Geffen Galleries are the culmination of LACMA\u2019s multi-decade expansion, which has added the Broad Contemporary Art Museum in 2008 and the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n With 110,000 square feet of gallery space, the new building, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, also includes a theater, educational spaces, restaurants, a museum shop, and covered event areas. Elevating the Geffen not only created gallery space but added 3.5 acres of parkland<\/a> with public artworks, making LACMA one of the most accessible urban museums<\/a> in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n Initial installations, overseen by 45 curators, feature up to 3,000 objects from LACMA\u2019s 170,000-piece collection, including works by Georges de La Tour, Matisse, and Van Gogh. Outdoor sculptures by Jeff Koons, Alexander Calder, and Auguste Rodin grace the ground-level plaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Photo Spirit via Shutterstock. \u00a0\u2013\u00a0 Staff Writer \u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 March 5, 2026 After more than five years in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-314978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sofia-delpueche-150x150.jpg\")
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\n\t\t\tMarch 5, 2026<\/p>\n