Stopped by the LACMA to check out the BMW art cars and the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum. I really like this light installation at the entrance (Chris Burden's Urban Light). It's nice and somewhat surreal to pass by it while driving down Wilshire.
Renzo Piano designed the new LACMA expansion, BCAM. Without any pretense of knowing much about architecture, I think it's such a let down from the Wilshire side. It could have been a landmark, something to really draw people's attention to LACMA. Instead, to me, it looks boring and already dated. On the other hand, I think the east and north sides are much better.
The east wall obviously borrows from Piano's Pompidou Center design in Paris, and the north side has a cool long escalator that brings you up past an industrial red and grey staircase structure and to the top floor of the BCAM, where you are to begin your visit. Nice.
So we were there because W suggested that we go to see the BMW art cars. Four of the cars are making two stops in the US, and LACMA is one of them. These rarely leave Germany so it was pretty exciting for W to see them. They are apparently legendary cars in their own right, then made even more significant by being given to famous artists (such as Andy Warhol, above) to have their way with them. Really cool.
Roy Lichtenstein (1977)
Frank Stella (1976)
Robert Rauschenberg (1986)
Andy Warhol (1979)
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