Caitlin Flanagan: How to Wreck a Museum
From the 1950s through the early 1970s it seemed like America could do anything, and Southern California was the place to do it. It had the biggest aerospace industry in the world, and an architecture of the fantastic to go with it—glass walls, sweeping angles, everything on the up, up, up. The new Geffen Galleries, hanging 30 feet in the air, look like a spaceship.
- ▪From the 1950s through the early 1970s it seemed like America could do anything, and Southern California was the place to do it.
- ▪It had the biggest aerospace industry in the world, and an architecture of the fantastic to go with it—glass walls, sweeping angles, everything on the up, up, up.
- ▪The new Geffen Galleries, hanging 30 feet in the air, look like a spaceship.
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Caitlin Flanagan: How to Wreck a Museum“I visited the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art three times over two weeks, and it radicalized me,” writes Caitlin Flanagan. (Museum Associates/LACMA)Art history now teaches that ‘putting things in categories’ is bad—which is how galleries end up feeling like a garage sale.By Caitlin Flanagan08.07.26 — Caitlin FlanaganFOLLOW COLUMN --:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narrationREAD IN APPREAD IN APPSeven hundred million dollars’ worth of critical theory has landed on a mid-city block of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, and it’s a pity, because the largest encyclopedic museum west of the Mississippi used to be there.At first glance—if such a behemoth can be taken in with something as mere and pitiably human as a glance—the…
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