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LACMA celebrated the opening of the David Geffen Galleries with a star-studded gala that drew artists, architects and Hollywood luminaries to toast Peter Zumthor’s bold new building, while fundraising milestones were highlighted, including a record $11.5 million raised at dinner and the campaign nearing $869 million overall.
Los Angeles’s new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA, a $724 million floating concrete structure by Peter Zumthor, rises 30 feet above Wilshire and opens to the public May 4 after years of controversy and fundraising; engineered with seismic isolators, wraparound windows, and chrome-curtain lighting, the design seeks to present diverse works on equal footing and reshape LA’s cultural landscape with an experiential, city-facing museum.
LACMA opens the $724 million David Geffen Galleries, a Peter Zumthor–designed, sinuous, floor-spanning structure that abandons traditional galleries for a self-guided, continuous interior and a landscape-embracing exterior; intended to fuse art, light and city context while aiming for LEED Gold and solar power, it has sparked praise for its atmosphere and ambition and critique for rough textures, sound behavior, and unfinished public spaces as the city’s cultural landscape shifts toward bolder risk.