To the editor: Sunday was my first go to to the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA with the artwork put in (“Inside LACMA’s lavish opening gala for the David Geffen Galleries with George Lucas, Ed Ruscha and Jeff Koons,” April 17). My preliminary impressions: attractive constructing, inside and outdoors. I someway felt extra in contact with the artwork, each the items mounted on these concrete partitions and the smaller gadgets of sculpture that had been proper out on tables with none glass case in the best way.
However I didn’t admire the best way the artwork was introduced. I discovered it very disconcerting to be taking a look at Seventeenth-century Dutch work and to show a nook and see a South Asian sculpture, trendy pictures or no matter else was put in within the subsequent house. There simply isn’t sufficient context due to the best way it’s introduced. To me, this idea of presenting the artwork in a “non-hierarchical” method is simply ivory tower tutorial nonsense.
I additionally actually disliked the gallery structure. The best way the gallery areas circulation into one another makes it close to unattainable to maintain observe of the place you’re, the place you’ve been and the place you may need to go subsequent. It was each maddening and exhausting. I don’t need to undergo a museum holding a map or with an app open on my cellphone. I need to have the ability to stroll from gallery to gallery, following some discernible theme. As a substitute, the artwork gave the impression to be introduced in an virtually random order.
Stephen Greenberg, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Having visited the brand new David Geffen Galleries not too long ago, I got here away with a need to return quickly — to discover a new “path” and to see all of the artwork that I missed. You may’t see it multi function go to. There isn’t a one route. “Wander” is the title of the catalog and is the right time period for the expertise. Surprise is what I skilled. “What is that this? The place is that this from? Who made this? Why is that this grouped with these different objects? What’s on this area of interest over right here? Have a look at this view!”
It’s a visit. I discovered it pleasant. The concrete supplies a non-intrusive setting for an interesting assortment. I’m no critic, however as a local Angeleno, I’m happy with this new cultural addition to our distinctive, artistic metropolis.
Laura Owen, Marina del Rey
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To the editor: We should always all be grateful to the various donors, together with taxpayers, for the beneficiant contributions to the brand new LACMA constructing. However the exterior signage honoring David Geffen is an eyesore. It distorts the unity of the facade, misleads vacationers by not asserting LACMA and makes the constructing a temple to at least one particular person.
Patrick Frank, Venice
