LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries Are a Formless Maze – WSJ

The David Geffen Galleries building, the newest of four that constitute the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a work of furious originality and ambition. It is the most significant American museum built this century, and not merely because of its architecture. For Michael Govan, its director, the building was merely a means to an end, which was to change the definition of the museum itself. Instead of presenting an organized system of knowledge, whose stylistic or chronological categories suggested hierarchies, it would free visitors, a press release claims, “from prescribed paths to follow their own curiosity.”

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