Comments on: Preserving a Small Piece of Damascus http://lacma.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/preserving-a-small-piece-of-damascus/ Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Deborah http://lacma.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/preserving-a-small-piece-of-damascus/#comment-17742 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:23:57 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=12596#comment-17742 It’s high time that the museum start incorporating this type of presentation. The lack of period rooms at LACMA has long made its display of decorative arts and, in particular, architectural artistry through the centuries — which is a category and type of exhibit that has been pretty much non-existent at the museum since 1965 — seem too much like what shoppers come across in the housewares section of a department store.

An example of what I’m describing is evident in LACMA’s video of “Conservator John Hirx on the Ischenko Pair of Gates” posted to Youtube. It was filmed in one of the museum’s galleries (not helped by its rather low ceiling height) that is about as inspiring and impressive as a home furnishings store on Melrose, or in the Valley or the OC.

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