The Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA ) is an art museum in the United States located in Los Angeles, California.
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | |
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| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | |
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| Established | 1910 year |
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| Address |  USA : Los Angeles , California |
| Director | Michael Govan |
| Site | lacma.org |
The largest art museum in the western United States, which is visited annually by more than a million people. It is one of the hundred most visited art museums in the world [1] . Contains more than 150,000 works, covering the history of art from ancient times to the present.
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History
Until 1961, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was part of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History , founded in 1910 at Exposition Park next to the University of Southern California .
The first patrons of the budding museum were Howard F. Ahmanson , Anna Bing Arnold and Bart Lytton . Amansson made a donation of $ 2 million, convincing a special commission to create a new museum. In 1965, the museum moved to a building on Wilshire Boulevard , becoming the largest museum after the National Gallery of Art . The museum complex was built in a style similar to the Lincoln Center and the Los Angeles Music Center , and consisted of three buildings - Ahmanson Building , Bing Center and Lytton Gallery (renamed in 1968 to Frances and Armand Hammer Building ).
In the 1980s, the museum was generously funded by donations - $ 209 million of private investments were raised while being director of Earl Powell. [2] Until now, new pavilions have been created in the museum, the surrounding area has been ennobled, and modern infrastructure has been created.
Activities
Among the departments of the museum there are: contemporary art, American and Latin American art, Asian and Islamic art, as well as Greek, Roman and Etruscan art. There is a section of arts and crafts and design, photography and films. It hosts art installations and exhibitions.
Museum directors:
- 1961-1966 - Richard F. Brown;
- 1966-1979 - Kenneth Donahue;
- 1980-1992 - Earl A. Powell ;
- 1992-1993 - Michael E. Shapiro;
- 1993-1995 - Ronald B. Bratton;
- 1996-1999 - Graham WJ Beal ;
- 1999-2005 - Andrea L. Rich;
- since 2006 - Michael Govan .
Museum attendance is constantly growing. In 2010, it was visited by 914 356 people . [3] In 2011, the one million bar was exceeded and about 1,200,000 people visited it. [four]
Notes
- ↑ Visitor Figures 2013: Museum and exhibition attendance numbers compiled and analysed , The Art Newspaper , International Edition, April 2014.
- ↑ William Wilson (July 3, 1986), New Building Plan For County Museum Of Art Los Angeles Times . (eng.)
- ↑ Jori Finkel (March 30, 2011), Attendance at LA museums lags behind the Los Angeles Times . (eng.)
- ↑ Javier Pes and Emily Sharpe (March 23, 2012), Attendance survey 2011: Brazil's exhibition boom puts Rio on top Archived June 26, 2014. The Art Newspaper . (eng.)