Mixed Feelings For LACMA Additions

The new Broad building is fine especially the upper floor with the mutted sky lights. The rooms are large and well lit. Even with large crowds moving about the rooms the art was still accessable. The problem is the art on the second floor. Except for the Cindy Sherman works, which fills one large room, the remainder is boring.

Then we come to the first floor. Two large steel sculptures by Richard Serra fill the entire floor. That's from floor to ceiling. The result is very little light gets into the work. The postcard they hand out at the entrance to the Broad has a picture of one of the sculptures. Keep the card. It's the best view you're ever going to get of the work.

Overall the new additions are a plus. The outdoor art is terrific. The lamps, balloons, and the fire truck are fun pieces. To bad the kids can't play on the fire truck. The minus is the covered concourse of the BP Entrance. For an open space it's awfull dark and closed in.

I think the BP Entrance will really shine at night. We look forward to returning a dusk to capture the lamps in all their glory.

We will report more in later posts. For now here are the same two views that we showed in our previous post.