A first glimpse (and listen) inside Lacma’s $720m new building – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) started allowing visitors inside its sprawling new building, the David Geffen Galleries, for previews late last week before the finishing touches are applied, art is installed and it officially opens in April 2026. Around 2,000 museum members and guests visited on Friday (27 June), winding through its serpentine but spacious concrete interior, casting silhouette shadows across polished floors. For the occasion, the musician Kamasi Washington invited 100 jazz musicians, organised into ten different sections and clustered in corners throughout the space, all playing one composition in what he called a “sonic preview”.