Comments on: For Your Eyes Only, Part II: California Design http://lacma.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/for-your-eyes-only-part-ii-california-design/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:27:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Deb http://lacma.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/for-your-eyes-only-part-ii-california-design/#comment-5550 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:31:10 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=9228#comment-5550 In light of the blog entries today and yesterday on the decorative arts, I’ve long been disappointed that LACMA has never had the wherewithal — financially or for other reasons — to include period rooms or re-creations of architectural settings within its walls. Without that format, the display of decorative arts often comes across too much like the housewares section of a department store.

Speaking of department stores, or former ones, since LACMA has thousands of square feet sitting empty and forlorn in the former May Co building, perhaps that could one day be where period rooms, or variations thereof, are installed.

Incidentally, I think it’s a shame the museum lost the confidence of Arthur Gilbert and his collection of decorative arts several years ago. Some may dismiss the meaning or importance of that, but when I’ve read that Joe Price and his collection of Japanese art are following in a similar pathway, I have to ask the question: What is wrong with you people at LACMA?!!

Beyond that, what’s going on with LACMA’s collection of Chinese art? When is that going to be brought out and displayed?

A hint from Marclay’s “The Clock” may be helpful: Time is of the essence! Please always keep that in mind, because how many decades did it take for Los Angeles to finally — finally! — get around to building an art museum?!

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