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26 THE ART NEWSPAPER Number 284, November 2016

Museums United States

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BUILDING PROJECTS

Los Angeles. The Swiss architect Peter
Zumthor has revealed fresh details of
his plan to radically transform the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma).
Zumthor spoke with Michael Govan,
Lacma’s director, at an event organ-
ised by Frieze magazine in London last
month. Some renderings he presented
were new to both the audience and
Govan himself, who quipped: “It was
good to see the updates.” The new-

look galleries will allow the museum
to present its encyclopaedic holdings
in an unconventional way, flouting
the traditional hierarchy of artefacts
and cultures. The museum has raised
$275m of the project’s $600m budget
to date.
Construction on the snaking, dra-
matic black structure is scheduled to
begin in late 2018. Four buildings on
Lacma’s campus will have to be demol-
ished to make way for the 368,000 sq. ft

Take a peek into Lacma’s future

Peter Zumthor’s ambitious design aims to eliminate traditional hierarchies and evoke “a walk in the woods”

LACMA: COURTESY OF LACMA/ATELIER PETER ZUMTHOR. ROTHKO: COURTESY OF VINCI HAMP ARCHITECTS/PORTLAND ART MUSEUM. SMITHSONIAN: COURTESY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION; PHOTO: ERIC LONG

Washington, DC. Efforts to establish a
branch of the Smithsonian Institution
dedicated to Latino culture are gaining
momentum after the successful opening
of the Smithsonian’s African Ameri-
can Museum of History and Culture
(NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Biparti-
san legislation was reintroduced in Sep-
tember to create a permanent home for
the National Museum of the American
Latino in the US capital.
“There are some 57 million Latinos
who are essentially missing from the

National Mall,” says Xavier Becerra,

who co-sponsored the bill in the House

of Representatives, in a statement. Con-

gress had considered similar proposals

in 2011 and 2013, but failed to pass them

into law. The bill will need to be rein-

troduced yet again if it does not pass

before the newly elected Congress

begins in January.

In the meantime, the Smithsonian

Latino Center, which supports research

and professional development at the insti-

tution, plans to establish an expanded

presence on the Mall with a 4,500 sq. ft

multimedia exhibition gallery. The space

is due to open in 2018 in the Smithsoni-

an’s historic Arts and Industries building

(AIB), the same site proposed for the

Latino museum. A report published by

a government-appointed commission in

2011 outlined a plan to build an annexe

underneath the AIB to accommodate the

$600m, 360,000 sq. ft institution.

Advocates say there has never been

a better time to revisit the idea for a

national museum dedicated to Latino

The Portland Art Museum in Oregon is

to pay homage to hometown hero Mark

Rothko, who emigrated to the city from

Russia (now Latvia) as a child and had

his irst solo exhibition there in 1933.

The museum has revealed plans for the

Rothko Pavilion, a new building that will

link two existing spaces as part of a $50m

expansion, due to begin in 2018. After the

museum came up with the idea, Rothko’s

children agreed to lend one major work by

their father to the institution on a rotating

basis for the next 20 years. V.S.B.

Is a Latino museum next for the Smithsonian?

The Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries

Building, and Xavier Becerra

Renderings of the “meander gallery”, which will offer panoramic views of Los Angeles

A rendering of the planned pavilion

Rothko gets pavilion at

hometown museum

There should be no

white walls; Zumthor

prefers “monastic clay”

extension. Although low-slung compared

with other buildings on the city’s Wil-

shire Boulevard, Zumthor’s design will

be elevated above the street and Hancock

Park. The architect explained that “lifting

the building enlarges the park” and

creates a “typical LA foyer—outdoors”.

A vast, single-floor “meander gallery”

within the new building will ofer pan-

oramic views of the city, while eight

“chapel galleries” provide intimate

encounters with art. These spaces will

be surrounded by a cluster of small

“cabinet galleries”, designed for object-

rich, wunderkammer-style displays.

The experience of moving through

the new Lacma building, due to open

in 2023, should be “like a walk in the

woods, going from clearing to clear-

ing”, Zumthor said, urging minimal

signage and labelling. Govan and

Zumthor agreed there should be no

white walls; the architect prefers a

“monastic clay tone”.

The Lacma project is the realisation

of Govan’s long-held ambition to work

with Zumthor. He originally wanted

to hire the Swiss architect to design

an extension of Dia:Beacon in Beacon,

New York, where he served as the direc-

tor until 2006.

Javier Pes

history and culture. “After

the divisive and acrimoni-

ous presidential campaign,

the majority of Americans

will be looking for ways to heal

our wounds,” says the 2011 report’s co-

author Luis Cancel. “A national narrative

that recognises that Latinos and Spanish-

speaking Americans have been integral

parts of building the country can be a

positive step in that process.”

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