LACMA’s Decorative Arts
The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art’s (LACMA) permanent collection will always hold a special place in my heart. The home of David Hockney’s iconic (and locally relevant), panoramic Pop painting Mullholland Drive, Kurt Schwitters’ Dada masterful assemblage work Construction for Noble Ladies, and brilliant photographs from renowned artist Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series, LACMA has long been a veritable venue for the who’s who and what’s what in modern art and beyond. Even in recent years of economic hardship, the museum has only grown more impressive with the addition of its Broad Contemporary Museum of Art, an adjacent museum space heavy on Pop giant like Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg, all loaned by art aficionados and philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. But LACMA’s gifts aren’t only limited to contemporary works. Thanks to the generosity of a few local folk, the museum’s Decorative Arts Department has also recently strengthened its veins.
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