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All the Looks From the LACMA Opening Gala for the David Geffen Galleries

All the Looks From the LACMA Opening Gala for the David Geffen Galleries

Published by Sam Flores

It’s the start of a new era at LACMA. On Thursday, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art celebrated the opening of its 347,500-square-foot David Geffen Galleries (named for a $150 million gift from the billionaire philanthropist) with a starry gala. While the evening’s guest list included artists, actors, musicians, models, board members, and more, the real star of the evening was the brand-new David Geffen Galleries, a building designed by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor, who collaborated with architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create the stunning structure. “This museum lets LA be present—the landscape and the ­houses and everything, Beverly Hills, the whole thing, is also present,” Zumthor told Vanity Fair’s arts and culture correspondent, Nate Freeman, in advance of the opening. “So, they interact together. We thought it’s a beautiful idea. You experience this art, which comes from the whole world, in LA and not in a box.” From members of LACMA’s board of trustees, like Nicole Avant, Carter Reum, Rich Paul, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, and others, to musicians and art patrons …

Erewhon to open at LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries

Erewhon to open at LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries

Published by Sam Flores

Want to sip on Hailey Bieber’s Strawberry Glaze Skin Smoothie after staring at Vincent van Gogh’s “Tarascon Stagecoach”? Los Angeles County Museum of Art has got you covered. The museum announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Erewhon, the high-end L.A. health food chain and retailer, on a cafe located on the ground level of its new David Geffen galleries. The cafe, which has outdoor seating beside Alexander Calder’s fountain sculpture, “Three Quintains (Hello Girls),” will open Sunday for LACMA members visiting the David Geffen Galleries. The general public can get in on the coveted buffalo cauliflower when the new building opens to the public on May 4 — with the partnership continuing through the summer. No definite closure has been announced, so it’s possible the collaboration continues. Erewhon will be stationed in the cafe at the David Geffen Galleries, behind Alexander Calder’s “Three Quintains (Hello Girls)” sculpture. (Etienne Laurent/For The Times) “We’re so proud to partner with LACMA, a meaningful milestone as our first museum collaboration,” said Tony Antoci, CEO and owner of Erewhon, …

6 Standout Museums and Galleries Shows to See After Expo Chicago

6 Standout Museums and Galleries Shows to See After Expo Chicago

Published by Jenni Sidey

All eyes will be on the Windy City this month as more than 130 galleries convene for the 15th edition of Expo Chicago at Navy Pier (April 9–12), its third outing as part of the international Frieze brand, which purchased the fair (along with New York’s Armory Show) in 2023. More than 35,000 art lovers attended the 2025 edition, and this year’s visitors will take advantage of the city’s rich art scene, with longstanding commercial galleries as well as scrappy artist-run spaces and institutions large and small, from the encyclopedic Art Institute of Chicago to the avant-garde–focused Museum of Contemporary Art and academically linked institutions such as the Smart Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society, both at the University of Chicago, and (until it closes, anyway) the DePaul Art Museum at the eponymous university. Here are six shows you shouldn’t miss after touching down at O’Hare. 1. “Dancing the Revolution” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Image Credit: Adrian Boot / Urbanimage.tv This first-of-its-kind exhibition surveys the intertwined histories of Caribbean-born musical genres dancehall and …

Non-European Artists Are Sorely Under-Represented in Paris Galleries

Non-European Artists Are Sorely Under-Represented in Paris Galleries

Published by José Betancourt

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines REALITY CHECK. Timed with the opening of Art Paris this week, a new study on the diversity of Parisian galleries has revealed some striking findings, reports The Art Newspaper France. Led by curator and author Louise Thurin alongside César Lévy, founder of 193 Gallery, the study surveyed 108 established galleries across the French capital. The results show notable progress in the representation of women artists, who now make up 34.8 percent of gallery rosters—nearly triple the figure from a decade ago. However, artists born outside Europe remain significantly underrepresented, regardless of where they are currently based. According to the survey, only 4.7 percent of artists were born in Africa, 5.3 percent in Asia, 3.6 percent in Central or South America, and just 0.5 percent in Oceania. By contrast, European artists account for 67 percent of rosters, with North American artists making up 19 percent. Younger artists are also in short supply: those under the age of 40 represent just 15.3 percent of gallery …

17 unmissable artworks in LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries

17 unmissable artworks in LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries

Published by Sam Flores

Context matters. The familiar looks and feels different when its setting has changed, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s David Geffen Galleries are all about change. Roughly 2,000 works from LACMA’s encyclopedic collection of more than 150,000 objects are installed in the new building, and each is seen in a new context, among a new constellation of related works, in exhibition spaces physically and conceptually unlike those of the past. Concrete, the structure’s dominant material, may be a synonym for fixed and definite, but the experience within is inescapably fluid. The single-level expanse of exhibition space has two entry points and countless options for covering its formidable length. The architecture insists that you meander and loop. LACMA is hardly the only institution to set about refreshing the narrative, but its manner of presentation is distinct, maybe even radical. Gone is the traditional museum format of organizing art in sequential, neatly contained rooms according to nationality, time period and medium. Works in the collection are grouped according to four major bodies of water—the Atlantic, …

How much did LACMA spend on new David Geffen Galleries?

How much did LACMA spend on new David Geffen Galleries?

Published by Sam Flores

It’s a thrilling example of progressive modernist design. Or an amorphous concrete monstrosity. Love it or hate it, Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s David Geffen Galleries are officially opening. And with the 347,500-square-foot new wing hurtling toward its April 16 gala, the intense public debate that has raged over the structure for more than two decades is poised to enter a new phase: How does the Peter Zumthor-designed building function as a museum and what will the public’s experience be of this controversial new civic space? In other words, was the Geffen Galleries’ $723.8-million price tag worth it? Share via Close extra sharing options Detractors, including former Times art critic Christopher Knight, have said no. In one of his final columns about the building during a sneak peek last summer, Knight called Zumthor’s creation “monotonous,” and lamented LACMA Director and Chief Executive Michael Govan’s plan to exhibit art according to curatorial themes rather than installing the encyclopedic collection “geographically as straightforward chronology.” Additional criticisms include the choice of architect and design (and the lack …

LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries bends all the rules

LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries bends all the rules

Published by Sam Flores

Does it feel like Los Angeles has lost its nerve? At its most effective, the city has taken outsized risks — sweeping, controversial bets that have reshaped not just its own landscape but the world’s. It built Hollywood into a global dream factory and carved a vast, paradigm-shifting freeway network. It built strange, game-changing wonders, from early Modernist archetypes to Disneyland and Disney Hall. Share via Close extra sharing options In the last few decades, that swagger seems to have collapsed under the weight of a tepid banality. But an unlikely hope is surfacing near the bubbling tar of prehistoric L.A. No L.A. institution has taken as risky a leap in this century as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With the opening of the $724-million David Geffen Galleries, LACMA has effectively erased and reinvented itself, trading a fragmented campus core for a sinuous, hovering concrete megastructure, three football fields long, that lunges headlong across Wilshire Boulevard. The result is as disorienting and austere as it is poetic and exhilarating — a living, morphing …

Alexander Calder fountain is back at LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries

Alexander Calder fountain is back at LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries

Published by Sam Flores

What’s old is new again as sculptor Alexander Calder’s monumental “Three Quintains (Hello Girls)” is installed to anchor the northeast corner of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries. The four water jets that propel the colorful, whimsical sculpture were turned back on in March more than 60 years after the piece was first commissioned for the museum’s original William Pereira–designed campus, which opened in 1965. “The concept of museums commissioning artists is now commonplace. It wasn’t commonplace then,” said LACMA’s senior curator and modern art department head, Stephanie Barron, as she watched the fountain’s bright yellow, red and blue mobile-like paddles dance and twist in the wind and water, alongside Sandy Rower, Calder’s grandson and head of his foundation. Sandy Rower, sculptor Alexander Calder’s grandson and the head of the Calder Foundation, stands beside his grandfather’s 1964 fountain, “Three Quintains (Hello Girls),” which was just installed at Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries. (Etienne Laurent / For The Times) Not only was the sculpture, fondly referred to …

10 wild photos of bird eggs

10 wild photos of bird eggs

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Colorful dyed eggs typically grab the spotlight on Easter, but the world of bird eggs is so much bigger than chickens. There are as many colors and sizes as there are bird species. According to conservation writer Paul Baicich, the co-author of Nests, Eggs and Nestlings of North American Birds, there is a reason some eggs are white and some are colored.  White eggs in the wild mostly belong to the birds that nest in deep holes in trees or terrain. These birds are called cavity nesters and the contrast between the white egg and dark spaces help them see their eggs. Some cavity nesters include woodpeckers, owls, and kestrels. Wild colored eggs—not the ones the Easter Bunny hides—generally belong to birds that nest in more open areas on the ground. This color makes them more difficult to find.  Because eggs in ground nests have color, they are harder for predators to find. Plovers, gulls, and most ducks are …

Galleries and Museums to Visit During Art Basel Hong Kong

Galleries and Museums to Visit During Art Basel Hong Kong

Published by Jenni Sidey

In 2025, nearly 100,000 people—collectors, curators, and the merely curious—descended on the archipelago of Hong Kong for Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest and busiest art event on the global calendar. But woe unto any fairgoer in 2026 who confines their time to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre: Even if its 240 galleries dazzle and exhaust in equal measure, Art Basel anchors a constellation of exhibitions and events during Hong Kong Art Week. Some venues have partnered with the fair: Pacific Place, a central shopping mall, is exhibiting Christine Sun Kim’s large-scale video cube, A String of Echo Traps (2022-2023). Tai Kwun, a former police station turned premier arts space, has a host of programming planned, with a noted focus on performance.  Below are a handful of standout offerings from independent galleries, museums, and multidisciplinary spaces. Check back with ARTnews throughout the week for on-the-ground coverage of Hong Kong’s 2026 art and culture calendar.  Lee Bul, Rauschenberg, and Ryuichi Sakamoto at M+ Image Credit: Collection of Leeum Museum of Art © Lee Bul. Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol Courtesy of the artist This week, a day at M+ would be well spent. The museum of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual …