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Old Posted Jan 31, 2012, 6:32 PM
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Originally Posted by citywatch View Post
the architect of the museum was said to be influenced by another bldg created in seattle for their 1962 world's fair. it's a bldg still in use today as seattle's science ctr.


^ that bldg's architect was the same person who designed the now vanished world trade ctr in nyc.

fwiw, I read that the design of the LA art museum was panned by many critics when it opened in the 1960s. so if it's judged today as "stalinist", it still wasn't praised even when brand new. one of its newest bldgs also got mostly reviews by several ppl in the media a few yrs ago. the museum has had a string of bad luck with its bldgs for over 40 yrs.
Very interesting that it was the same architect as the WTC.

The museum was also panned by local Southern California artists back then for non inclusion in shows there. They needed to import "real" "important" artwork from NYC. Not saying I do not like the work that came out of NYC back then, but LACMA missed the boat big time on the thriving art scene here. Now we have the Getty's Pacific Standard Time event happening to make up for this. http://www.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/

The current Director and Curators do a very good job now of inclusion of local artists, I must say. We are now one of the most prominent art cities in the world. With great artists here

And on the bldg front, there was that fiasco a few years ago for architect bids to redo the LACMA bldgs until they found out that they were not allowed to tear down the Ahmanson bldg
There is a thread about it here http://www.skyscrapercity.com/archiv.../t-439870.html
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