LACMA is the acronym for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art but everybody here just calls it that. The institution is about 50 years old. Most of its original set of buildings have been demolished while some big, new futuristic structure is being built. Some of the space is still around, including this contemporary gallery. Some people prefer their phones to what is on the walls.
So said the song from the old Broadway musical Oklahoma! so forgive me while I post a couple more KC pix, pending some new local material. The city has a a very good gallery, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. A new section, the Bloch Wing, opened three years ago and I got to see it for the first time Saturday. The architecture is brilliant, a series of glowing boxes dropping down the hillside perpendicular to the old museum building. The museum is known for its set of four badminton shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg on the lawns. This one's space is undergoing some repairs, which makes it all the more bizarre.
