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green display table in exhibition
Radical Practicality

Designed by Bestor Architecture, an exhibition at LACMA showcases pleasing and pragmatic Scandinavian experimentation

a monumental sculptural work in the nevada desert
Not A Mirage

Decades in the making, Michael Heizer’s colossal desert City readies for its public debut

Rendering of a cartoonish looking fox in the bed of the LA River
Art, Design, and Large Mammals

Daily digest: Ellen DeGeneres loves gorillas, Snapchat and LACMA unveil second collection of virtual monuments, and more

exterior photograph depicting a spherical building
Blowing Bubbles

The Academy Museum is open, but its standout gesture rings hollow

Photo of the lacma demolition, part of which will be repurposed for extraction
Picking Up The Pieces

Cayetano Ferrer’s Extraction will turn pieces of the demolished LACMA into outdoor infrastructure

A cedric price drawing of a a spinning gantry from the canadian centre for architecture, which received money from the getty foundation
Drawn Together

Getty Foundation awards $1.55 million to museums exhibiting historic architecture drawings

The skyline of brussels
Big Changes Coming

Daily digest: Europe unveils a blockbuster 2030 climate plan, Maurizio Cattelan’s 9/11 memorial, and more

the front of the cooper hewitt design museum in the summer
A Summer Of Art

Daily digest: The Cooper Hewitt is reopening with free admission, Ai Weiwei returns to LACMA, and more

an augmented reality monument viewed through a smart phone
Snap It Up

Five virtual monuments are now viewable at LACMA, MacArthur Park, and across L.A.

a mural in los angeles, cited by monuments lab
Reimagining Commemorative Spaces

LACMA and MASS Design Group among new Monuments Project grantees

an art museum campus with palm trees, which will launch monumental perspectives
Monuments, In a Snap

LACMA’s new digital public art program will drop AR-based monuments and murals across L.A.

rendering of a contemporary museum building
The Shape of Table

Updated LACMA plans and renderings reveal the shape of the museum’s galleries for the first time

building demolition with palm trees
Lacking The LACMA

Nearly six months on, LACMA demolition nears completion

Rendering of Hancock Park, a block with a large glass bubble attached to a building
Movies to Mammoths

Hancock Park may become Los Angeles’s first true urban microcosm

an alternative design proposal for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Anything but LAC-luster

Finalists in the LACMA Not LackMA protest design competition unveiled

Construction site at LACMA, with a collapsed building at center
Bulldozing Bing

Demolition of LACMA’s first buildings currently underway

two people in front of large building
Full Steam Ahead

LACMA continues demolition of original buildings amid quarantine

Ahmanson Amending Aid

Ahmanson Foundation severs ties with LACMA over redevelopment

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